The Human Zero : The Science Fiction Stories Of Erle Stanley Gardner

William Morrow & Co. Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket. 1981. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 444 pages: 5.75 x 8.5 in.: 1.8: KB#003993: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Stated First Edition (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10). Copy has an libris embossed stamp on upper corner of front flyleaf. Boards and pages are clean, tightly bound, and sharp cornered. Dustjacket has a vertical crease in the back but is not price clipped. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. ""A space capsule reels into space (in the 1920s!), complete with rocket and weightless passengers. Intelligent ants guard a ledge of solid gold in darkest Africa. A scientific miracle makes people invisible. Fans of Erle Stanley Gardner will be surprised and delighted to discover in these long-unavailable stories that he was one of our earliest science fiction writers - and science fiction readers will regret that he did not write many more. Published in Argosy magazine in the 1920s and 1930s, these suspenseful tales display Gardner's grasp of a vast range of unlikely subject matter and the masterful gift for plot and action that made him the best-selling author of all time. Some of the stories are peopled with his classic cops and killers, tough reporters and sleuths of detective fiction, along with the mad professors and strange geniuses of fantastic science." .