Time Probe: The Sciences in Science Fiction
by CLARKE, ARTHUR C. (Collected by & Intro)
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Victor Gollancz 1966. FIRST EDITION, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, ix + 242pp, VG (light scuffing & bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sm ink stains to bottom of prelim pgs, ink annotations & markings to eps & text sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some loss, price clipped, moderate discolouration to spine & edges)
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- Title
- Time Probe: The Sciences in Science Fiction
- Author
- CLARKE, ARTHUR C. (Collected by & Intro)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz 1966
- Keywords
- first edition literary criticism science fiction literature Arthur C Clarke anthology collection
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- Gilt
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Octavo
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