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Men Against the Stars
by Greenberg, Martin [editor], Willy Ley [intro]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Gnome Press, Inc., 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 22 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 351pp. Purple cloth backed spine with grey boards in dust jacket. Stated first edition. Previous owner's inscription on front fixed endpaper. Bump to boards. Some spotting ot foredges. First state dust jacket with 5 titles listed and 2 forthcoming on back of jacket. Original price of $2.95 present on front flap. Edd Cartier dust jacket. Jacket is torn and tape repaired, mostly complete. There is also a piece of paper with the number one taped to the jacket spine. Adventures in Science Fiction Series. Stories by: Isaac Asimov, Lewis Padgett, Hal Clement, L. Ron Hubbard, H. B. Fyfe, Manly Wade Wellman, E. M. Hull, Murray Leinster, A. E. Van Vogt, Harry Walton, Robert Moore Williams. Reference: Website "Gnome Press: The Complete History and Bibliography
Synopsis
Men Against the Stars is a 1950 anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Martin Greenberg. It was the first “theme” anthology in science fiction, where all stories are about a common idea, setting, or concept. All the stories, save one, had originally appeared in the magazine Astounding. The other story, "When Shadows Fall", first appeared in Startling Stories.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 73476
- Title
- Men Against the Stars
- Author
- Greenberg, Martin [editor], Willy Ley [intro]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Gnome Press, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
Terms of Sale
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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