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NY: Signet, 1960. 1st printing, Mar. 1960; #S1769. Cover art by Lehr. Spine losses; stains; spine split between 48/49; tanning; bumps and dings; corner chips and tears. Reading copy.. Mass Market Paperback. Reading Copy.
Islands in the Sky by Clarke, Arthur C - 1952
by Clarke, Arthur C
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Islands in the Sky
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Philadelphia, PA: The John C. Winston Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good-Near Fine. "When young Roy Malcolm won the Aviation Quiz Contest, the sponsor, World Airways, never dreamed he could legally claim a trip to the Inner Space Station as his prize. Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, this is an amazing yarn about a teen-ager's adventures and conflicts five hundred miles up on a strange, artificial outpost that circles our planet." (from front flap) An early, classic science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008), the great British-born writer, inventor & television personality perhaps most famous for co-writing the screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey with the iconic film's director, Stanley Kubrick. Brilliantly prolific & prophetic, Clarke wrote fiction & non-fiction about the furthest science advances & speculations. As he predicted in his introduction, "Cities in Space," such human-made & staffed stations launched from Earth would exist in reality not all that long from his fictional depiction of them in this prescient novel. Offered here is the first USA edition (stated "First Edition" on copyright page), hardcover in dust jacket. A key collectible in the Clarke canon. Book in fine condition with only very mild rubbing & occasional scratching, spotting to front, back covers & spine (blue cloth with orange lettering on spine); very light wear at edges & corners of same esp. spine; light rubbing to edges of text block. Interior very fine with exemplary retro-futuristic Black-&-white endpaper illustrations by Alex Schomburg; slightest browning at thin blank edges of page leaves; tiny bumps at corners of a few of same. Dust jacket, slightly clipped at all four flap corners as issued but not remainder-clipped, in good-to-near-fine condition with very light rubbing to front cover & spine (also illustrated, in color, by Shomburg); moderate-to-significant rubbing, staining & creasing to back cover with list of ten contemporary science fiction books including this; medium-small horizontal area of tape residue extending from mid-left edge of same; mild-to-moderate wear & small bumps, creases with miniscule loss of paper at all edges & corners.
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- Edition First Edition
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- Publisher The John C. Winston Company
- Place of Publication Philadelphia, PA
- Date Published 1952
- Keywords Arthur C. Clarke, Alex Schomburg, 1952
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ISLANDS IN THE SKY
by Clarke, Arthur C
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Islands in the Sky by Arthur C. ClarkePublisher: Roc (1981)ISBN-10: 0451098234ISBN-13: 9780451098238PaperbackItem Weight: 1.6 ouncesDimensions: 7 x 4.15 inches, 157 pagesA story of life in a space satellite by the master of Science Fiction---------------------------Islands in the Sky is a 1952 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It is one of his earliest works. Clarke wrote the story as a travelogue of human settlement of cislunar space in the last half of the twenty-first century.This is one of the thirty-five juvenile novels that make up the Winston Science Fiction series that was published in the 1950s for a readership of teenagers. The typical protagonist in these books was a boy in his late teens who was proficient in the art of electronics, a hobby that was easily available to the readers. In this case, though, Roy Malcolm is an expert in aviation, its history, and its technology.
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Signet, 1965. Softcover. Good. KD510,moderate wear all over
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Islands in the Sky
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Penguin Publishing Group, 1960. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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Islands in the Sky
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Islands in the Sky
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Signet. Softcover. Very Good. T4895, 5th printing
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Islands in the Sky
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Islands In The Sky
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Holt, Rinehart And Winston, 1964. 8th Edition. Paperback. Used:Good. Good In Poor Dust Jacket. X-Library With Markings. Dj-"Was" In Mylar But It Has Major Damage, Dj Shows Much Chipping And Pieces Missing. Book Shows Shelfwear And Bumping .
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Islands in the Sky
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Penguin Publishing Group, 1960. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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Islands in the Sky
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Signet, 1960. Softcover. Near Fine. S1769, 1st thus
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