The Ballad of Beta 2

Ace Books, New York, 1965. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Kelly Freas -- Cover Art. Illustrated card cover, by Kelly Freas, with yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and green and black colour titles to the backstrip. Orange coloured tint to the textblock edges. "Anthropology student Joneny was sent out on a quest. He didn't want: to find the meaning of the Ballad of Beta-2. For the ballot was the only clue that even hinted at what happened to spaceship Beta-2's missing crew of galactic colonists. Joney's search for the answer led him on a course of indescribable terror – and to a miraculous understanding." -- from the rear panel blurb. Rubbing to the book panels and to the book edges with browning and foxing to the textblock edges and browning to the pages. There is a creases that runs three quarters the length of the rear book panel. First softcover edition. Size: 16mo (very small). [4],5- 124, [4] pages.. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Kelly Freas -- Cover Art. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Inventory No: 0114801. .