BEYOND INFINITY. [DELL 781.]
by CARR, ROBERT SPENCER:
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- GOOD./No dw/dj,p/back as issued.
- Seller
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About This Item
US,12mo p/back,1st edn.[Originally and first published US, Fantasy Press Reading,PA,1951 in 350 numbered,limited, subscribers' copies inscribed by Carr and publishers trade HB+dw/dj issue completing a believed print run of 3,000 copies only.This the first but later and early 50s US p/back appearance. Author is the brother of John Dickson Carr.] GOOD. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from cover (25c).Colour pictorial artwork by Richard Powers, illustrated front with black+red letters.Slightly grubbed rear white background cover with creases to corners, reading creases to spine,and light rubbing to edges but no major nicks,tears or splits present.All edges coloured sea-green; contents tight and solid with some light and minimal foxing/spotting/blemishes.US,12mo p/back,1st edn,11-223pp [paginated] - previous bookseller red ink stamp to top edge of pp11 and also to foot of last page, includes 4 short stories set on Earth in the mid-20thC but with SF content; plus [unpaginated] critics' reviews with corner crease to top edge, double page title page,a dedication,contents list/table,individual story title separator pages and to reverse of last page, publisher's advert,
'Beyond Infinity' - An elderly couple,after spending their lives in a fruitless search for the secret of eternal youth, make the first flight into space to find it. 'Morning Star' - An intruder from another planet - a woman baffling as she is beautiful - slips into a secret weapons conference of the world's greatest atomic svientists. 'Those Men From Mars' - Martian envoys visit Earth,one landing on the White House lawn,another at the Kremlin - and the world waits for them to choose sides. 'Mutation' - The last man on Earth lives a life of fear - will the new race be composed of supermen or subhumans?
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Synopsis
Beyond Infinity is a collection of science fiction stories by author Robert Spencer Carr. It was first published in 1951 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 2,779 copies. Two of the stories originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post.
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- Bookseller
- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- rja920821
- Title
- BEYOND INFINITY. [DELL 781.]
- Author
- CARR, ROBERT SPENCER:
- Illustrator
- Colour pictorial artwork cover by Richard Powers
- Book Condition
- Used - GOOD.
- Jacket Condition
- No dw/dj,p/back as issued.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- US,12mo p/back,1st edn.
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- US,NY Dell Publishing Co. ,[n.d. but c1954.]
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- .q52.SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY.US,slim 12mo p/back,1st edn.No ISBN.US_vintage sci-fi_pulps_p/backs.Sci-fi novelette collection_Robert Specser Carr_John Dickson Carr.The Room Beyond_1948.DELL p/b 1sts.Books new,used,signed,rare.
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- SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY;
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