Days of Starlight Tapa dura - 1988

Published by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, Auckland, 1988. Hard Cover, First Edition. Condition: Very Good. Ex library. Looks unread. Very clean and tight. Dust Jacket: Very Good. In protective cover. .

Auckland, New Zealand: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. ISBN 0340422033 244 pp. Very good dust jacket - small closed tear on flyleaf edge. Dust jacket art by Garry Meeson. Harrison also wrote the underground SF Classic The Quiet Earth. Became a cult movie: "The Quiet Earth is a 1985 New Zealand science fiction post-apocalyptic film directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge and Peter Smith as three survivors of a cataclysmic disaster. In 2014, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson named it one of his favorite science fiction films. The film placed tenth in a 2014 public poll by Stuff.co.nz of the best New Zealand films of all time.

Auckland London New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. 244 pp. Corners worn Blue cloth boards. Dust jacket art by Garry Meeson. Harrison also wrote the underground SF Classic The Quiet Earth. Became a cult movie: "The Quiet Earth is a 1985 New Zealand science fiction post-apocalyptic film directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge and Peter Smith as three survivors of a cataclysmic disaster. In 2014, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson named it one of his favorite science fiction films. The film placed tenth in a 2014 public poll by Stuff.co.nz of the best New Zealand films of all time.

Auckland: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. 0340422033 . No signatures or previous owner's marks. Some spots of foxing to endpapers. Small 3mm tear near tail of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 244 pages. Blue boards with white lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 213 x 133mm. "When a team of research geologists at a remote American base in Antarctica discovers a two-metre-long silicon crystal, it becomes their most prized specimen." - from dust-jacket blurb. A science fiction novel. Craig Harrison was born in England in 1942 and came to New Zealand in 1966. "'Days of Starlight' (1988) pits scientists against the US military after a holographic recorder of Earth's history is discovered." - Murray MacLachlan and John Clute, entry on Craig Harrison, in John Clute and David Langford (editors) SFE (SF Encyclopedia, fourth edition, online, accessed January 2024). .

Hodder and Stoughton, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Blue boards with white spine titling, with light edgewear and bumped spine ends. Spine cocked forward. Binding sound. Dust jacket foxed to verso, with small taped area to bottom margin of front panel and tape repair to verso at bottom edge of front panel. Textblock edges foxed. Endsheets foxed, with sparse foxing or thumbprint staining to margins throughout. Interior else clean, text unmarked.

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 07/12/1989 00:00:01. hardcover. Good. 2.3982 in x 21.3837 in x 14.5889 in. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. With Dust Cover.