New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1975. Third Ballantine printing . Paperback. Fine. Ballantine book number 24508 with $1.50 cover price. Cover art by Dean Ellis. "One of the subtlest of Clement's far-out planetary environments, narrated rather dryly but with flashes of understated humor." Barron; Anatomy of Wonder 4, 3-47. A fine and bright, as new and unread copy.
Ballantine book number 24508 with $1.50 cover price. Cover art by Dean Ellis. "One of the subtlest of Clement's far-out planetary environments, narrated rather dryly but with flashes of understated humor." Barron; Anatomy of Wonder 4, 3-47. A fine and bright, as new and unread copy.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1964. First edition First printing. Paperback. Fine. Ballantine book number U2215 with 50¢ cover price. Cover illustration by Paul Lehr. A fine and bright unread copy.
Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Books U2215. "Humans attempt to contact the alien inhabitants of the extremely inhospitable heavy gravity planet Tenebra. A scrupulously scientific adventure which hews closely to the author's earlier success, MISSION OF GRAVITY. The result is not quite as effective, though." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 71. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-257. A fine copy. (#158145)
Dust jacket has very minor soiling and a small brown dot on front of dust jacket. Nice shape overall in mylar sleeve. Lightly soiled text block. NOT price clipped. First British edition.
Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. "Humans attempt to contact the alien inhabitants of the extremely inhospitable heavy gravity planet Tenebra. A scrupulously scientific adventure which hews closely to the author's earlier success, MISSION OF GRAVITY. The result is not quite as effective, though." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 71. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-257. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with just a hint of tanning to spine panel and a small price sticker pasted over the publisher's price printed on the front flap. A sharp copy. (#148610)
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price clipped: The portion of the dust jacket flap where the publisher prints the suggested price has been cut away. Usually this is a clean 1-2" diagonal cut made with scissors.