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The Ant Men
by North, Eric
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1955. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Blaisdell, Paul (jacket). Near Fine book, in a Very Good, and complete and unclipped, jacket. See scans and description. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1955. First Edition [stated] and first printing. Octavo, russet cloth, 216 pp.; illustrated jacket by Paul Blaisdell, correct with twenty-six titles on the back, twenty-five of those being from the standard series and the twenty-sixth being "The Year After Tomorrow" anthology. Iconic endpaper designs of course are by Alex Schomburg. No significant flaws to the book save for three small pressure dimples on back cover and moderate top-page-edge soiling. Near Fine. Unclipped Jacket shows occasional peripheral wear with the most notable occurrence being at the top of the back cover. A Very Good jacket. See scans. Pages almost completely un-toned; sharp. If you're here - and you are - you know the Winston series of juvenile sci-fi novels, a 37-title series issued between 1952 and 1961. The Ant Men is one of the less common entries in the series; Eric North is a pseudonym for prolific author/journalist Bernard Charles Cronin. - L200
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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- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001406
- Title
- The Ant Men
- Author
- North, Eric
- Illustrator
- Blaisdell, Paul (jacket)
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The John C. Winston Co.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1955
- Pages
- 216
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Adventure, Time Travel, "Science Fiction, Fantasy, Magic", General
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
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