Search Results: takeoff by cyril m kornbluth

New York, NY, USA.: Pennant Books., 1953. Book. Illus. by Painted Cover. Good to Very Good.. Soft cover. First Edition By This Publisher.. 149 pages. "A badly dated thriller about the building of the first Moon rocket: here, a scientist and a businessman conspire with various juveniles to carry out the mighty project in secrecy. Kornbluth's first solo novel, praised in its day.">> Cover creasing, minor staining to front cover. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall..

New York, NY, USA.: Pennant Books., 1953. Book. Illus. by Painted Cover. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition By This Publisher.. 149 pages. "A badly dated thriller about the building of the first Moon rocket: here, a scientist and a businessman conspire with various juveniles to carry out the mighty project in secrecy. Kornbluth's first solo novel, praised in its day." >> Minor pen & creasing to front cover. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall..

New York, NY, USA.: Pennant Books., 1953. Book. Illus. by Painted Cover. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition By This Publisher.. 149 pages. "A badly dated thriller about the building of the first Moon rocket: here, a scientist and a businessman conspire with various juveniles to carry out the mighty project in secrecy. Kornbluth's first solo novel, praised in its day." Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall..

Garden City, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Minor wear to spine and edges of book. Dust jacket shows moderate wear, with chipping and rubbing present. Pages age toned.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York, New York: Tor Books / Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 1983. Softcover. Good/No Jacket. Used Book: Mass Market Paperback Standard used reading condition or better.

Tor, 1983. Softcover. Very Good.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. Book Club Edition (BCE) . Hardcover. VG/Poor. Shilstone, Arthur. Tale of espionage set in the middle of the US space program during the Cold War era. Jacket design by Arthur Shilstone.A Book Club Edition (BCE) from the Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club, this hardcover from 1952 is in VG condition in a poor DJ. Book is very clean, with light tanning, heavier to endpapers, & foxing to outside page edges. Ffep has a torn corner. NO writing/underlining/highlighting; NOT ex-lib. The front cover art on the DJ is intact, but a large chunk is missing from rear, other edgewear & chipping. Please see our photos--they show the Exact book you will receive from us, never "stock" images! Description & photos copyright Gargoyle Books 2021. Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

New. .

UsedVeryGood. Minor shelf wear

UsedLikeNew. Remainder mark

TOR, 1983. Book. Near Fine. Mass Market Paperback. 1st Thus. This edition adds a novelette by Kornbluth, "Takeoff" (1952), and an afterword by Kornbluth's friend, SF Grandmaster Frederik Pohl. Tom Kidd cover art..

Pennant Books [1953], 1953T. mass_market. Acceptable. . first edition book, creasing along the spine of the book, ripping along the spine of the book

Doubleday & Co. , Inc.. Book Club Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. 2 small dents in center of front board. Endpapers partially browned ( likely from news clippings) . ; Doubleday Science Fiction; 7.8 X 5.4 X 0.8 inches; 218 pages

Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1952. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Pennant Books [1953]. Good. 1953. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. First edition thus. Pennant P15 with 25 cents cover price. "He tore the lid off the greatest secret of our time". 149 pages. Good or better copy [spine creased and cocked, cover creasing, cheap text paper tanning]. .

[New York]: A Jim Baen Presentation / Tor [1983]. Very Good. 1983. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. 0523485700 . First edition thus. "First, last, and always, Cade was a Gunner..." 320 pages. VG+ copy [very light creasing, cheap paper tanning]. .

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc, 1952. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 218pp. Lightly edgeworn, gift inscription on the front free endpaper, else a very good hardcover in a rubbed, edgeworn, and price-clipped dust jacket.

New York: Tor, 1983. first thus. Mass Paperback. Good. Tom Kidd. First printing of this edition. Spine is creased but straight. Cover has corner crease, reading crease. Pages tanning. Tor mass paperback, first printing April 1983 (stated), ISBN: 9780523485706, 320 pages, cover art by Tom Kidd. 12mo (4.25"" x 6.75") Omnibus edition of two novels: Gunner Cade, by C. M. Kornbluth and Judith Merril writing as Cyril Judd; and Takeoff, by C. M. Kornbluth. Takeoff was nominated for the 1953 International Fantasy Award. This is the first reprinting of Takeoff since the 1950s, and the first reprinting of Gunner Cade since the 1960s, and is the most recent edition (over 30 years ago) of either novel.

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. A beautiful copy of this classic tale. Interiors are tightly bound and unmarked. Lightly tanned. Light rubbing to the spine base of the boards. Dustjacket has been clipped on all four corners and shows creasing and chipping, mainly to the spine points. Now, mylar protected. A very nice copy.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Arthur Shilstone - Jacket Design . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.