FLIGHT INTO YESTERDAY
de Harness, Charles L[eonard]
- Usado
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- A fine copy in a very good dust jacket, light wear to the corner tips and spine ends, shallow loss at head of spine panel, 12 mm
- Librería
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Bouregy & Curl, Inc., [1953]. First edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket, light wear to the corner tips and spine ends, shallow loss at head of spine panel, 12 mm closed tear to upper front panel, tiny nick to lower front panel, slight color fade to spine panel. Uncommon signed. (25934). Octavo, boards. Inscribed by Harness (to a collector) on the front free end paper. The author's first book. A classic modern SF novel, better known under its later alternate title THE PARADOX MEN. "Alar the Thief fights the twenty-second-century Chancellor of America Imperial. An intricate and heartening tale of time paradoxes, written in grand pulp style." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 274. "Authoritarian dystopia" - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 246. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-189. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 10. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1641-44.
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- Librería
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 25934
- Título
- FLIGHT INTO YESTERDAY
- Autor
- Harness, Charles L[eonard]
- Estado del libro
- Usado - A fine copy in a very good dust jacket, light wear to the corner tips and spine ends, shallow loss at head of spine panel, 12 mm
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Editorial
- Bouregy & Curl, Inc.
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- [1953]
- Palabras clave
- SF . Signed
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John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
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