SEA SIEGE

New York: Fawcett Crest Books, 1980. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. A mid-career, stand-alone novel from Norton, one of the greatest sci-fi and fantasy writers of the 20th century, the first woman to be named a Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy, the first named a Science Fiction Writers Association Grand Master and the first inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. Originally published in hardcover in 1957, "Sea Siege" is the story of a group of American Seabees, scientists and native islanders isolated on a Caribbean island after a nuclear war, who find themselves confronted by a horror rising from the sea, more terrifying than any man had ever known. Mass Market Paperback. First Fawcett Crest edition, first printing (as stated, with complete numberline). About 4 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches, 221 pages in pictorial wrappers with front cover showing skin diver fighting monster cephalopod. Back cover contains three blurbs praising Norton's work. A tiny, quarter-inch tear on top edge of fold between back cover and spine, o/w only minimal soiling and surface and edge wear. Text is complete, clean and unmarked; binding is tight with a very slight spine lean. A collectable copy.