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Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., [1952]. 8vo. ix, [1], 210 pp. Illust. endpapers showing robots, flying saucers and spacesuits, & rockets by Schomburg. Blue cloth, red lettering (uniform interior toning as usual, offsetting at gutter margin), w/ d.j. vivid cover art of flying saucers by Alex Schomburg (minor chipping head & foot of spine, faint tidemark to head of spine, rear upper fore-edge, price-clipped), still VG/VG- copy. First edition, stated, of this excellent Winston Science Fiction title, foreshadowing the plot of ET with young alien from the Andromeda Galaxy crashed on Earth, injured, and attempting to return to his people with the help of a young ham radio operator.

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 1952. Hard Cover. Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. x, 210 pp. First edition. As issued, in navy blue cloth with title in red on the spine. Binding is only lightly worn with the tail of the spine a bit bumped; textblock is notably and evenly toned, else Very Good+ or better; dust jacket presents very well with minor shelfwear including a crease along the top of the front panel; price intact on the front flap.