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The Ant Men
by Eric North
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
The Ant Men by Eric North, Macfadden 60-277, 1967, first printing. Cover art by Jack Faragasso. Bright, square and tight. Scarce book!
Synopsis
"There's a feeling about this desert which frankly suggests...impossible things. That's the only way I can put it." The feeling that Professor Silas Orcutt, an American geologist, refers to early in this story, is one that every reader of this rugged and thrilling science fiction novel will share with him after the very first page. The professor, head of a party of five studying geological formations in the Central Australian desert, thought back on the nightmare of shifting sand and crackling electrical charges that had wrecked the truck in which his party was traveling. He thought, too, of the skeleton of a freshly killed crocodile - found hundreds of miles from the nearest river - and the stench of formic acid that remained around its picked-clean bones. The professor's intrepid little group was prepared to find fossils in the Australian rock strata - but not the living kind that shocked them into believing the impossible of the burnt-out lands of the continent down under. Trapped in a desert valley under the pitiless sun, the five found themselves face to face with six-foot-tall ants and deadly giant mantises: survivors from before the dawn of history. Locked in a harrowing war for survival, these deadly creatures had little use for the puny men who found themselves in the midst of an insect war! How Professor Orcutt was captured by ants with curiously manlike characteristics; how the members of his party found him and investigated the huge underground ant city; how they helped defend the ant men's ghostly underground caverns make this a completely gripping novel capped with a taut and electrifying climax sure to please readers of every age.
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Details
- Bookseller
- F&SF Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- pb1745
- Title
- The Ant Men
- Author
- Eric North
- Illustrator
- Jack Faragasso
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- MacFadden
- Date Published
- 1967
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- SF PB;
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I sell hardcover and paperback books primarily in the genres of fantasy, horror and science fiction. In hardcovers I specialize in small press, signed and limited editions.I have been a collector for over 50 years. I picture all of my items and describe anything that cannot be seen from the pics. I never use stock photos; all pics are the actual item. I securely pack and ship in boxes, never mailers.
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