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Assignment in Eternity: v. 1
by Heinlein., Robert A
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG++/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0450035484
- ISBN 13
- 9780450035487
- Seller
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About This Item
SOFTBACK ""SCIENCE FICTION,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1977. * Publisher: New English Library. Science Fiction.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated stiff card covers showing a dome on a craggy moon service. White titles to black spine strip and to illustrated face. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners & to head & tail of spine. Extremely light marks only. VG++.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no tanning or other visible faults to pages. Some age darkening to page margins & edges especially to top. VG++ * Illustrations: None.* Pages: 142 pp. text. ii pp. blank and adverts at rear.* Description:- Science fiction - The federal bureau of security sends one of it's top agents to earth from the moon carrying a spool of microfilm of incalculable value. He arrives disguised as a commercial traveller, but quickly transforms himself into captain Gilead, explorer and lecturer. there are people on Earth who will go to any length to relieve him of the film - and they are not deceived for long by his disguise. they begin to close in on him - and time is short.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st/1st thus with minimal age reducing it to VG++.* 0
Synopsis
Assignment in Eternity, is a collection of four mixed science fiction and fantasy novellas by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in hardcover by Fantasy Press in 1953, with some of the stories somewhat revised from their original magazine publications, as follows: Gulf (written and published in 1949 in Astounding Science Fiction, October-November 1949).
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9882
- Title
- Assignment in Eternity: v. 1
- Author
- Heinlein., Robert A
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG++/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edn. Thus 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0450035484
- ISBN 13
- 9780450035487
- Publisher
- New English Library
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1977-10-01
- Pages
- 128
- X weight
- g
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