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THE ANT MEN
by Eric North
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good binding/Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Richmond, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 51952. First Edition. Very Good binding/Fair dust jacket. A clean First Edition copy with no marks of any kind. The dustjacket -- while still portraying some splendid ants -- is compromised with a nearly two inch piece missing from the bottom of the spine, and some significant loss to the top edge of the front panel (affecting the titling) and more minor loss to the edges of the rear panel. The dustjacket has not been price-clipepd and is now protected with a new mylar cover. Very Good binding / Fair dust jacket.
Synopsis
"There's a feeling about this desert which frankly suggests...impossible things. That's the only way I can put it." The feeling that Professor Silas Orcutt, an American geologist, refers to early in this story, is one that every reader of this rugged and thrilling science fiction novel will share with him after the very first page. The professor, head of a party of five studying geological formations in the Central Australian desert, thought back on the nightmare of shifting sand and crackling electrical charges that had wrecked the truck in which his party was traveling. He thought, too, of the skeleton of a freshly killed crocodile - found hundreds of miles from the nearest river - and the stench of formic acid that remained around its picked-clean bones. The professor's intrepid little group was prepared to find fossils in the Australian rock strata - but not the living kind that shocked them into believing the impossible of the burnt-out lands of the continent down under. Trapped in a desert valley under the pitiless sun, the five found themselves face to face with six-foot-tall ants and deadly giant mantises: survivors from before the dawn of history. Locked in a harrowing war for survival, these deadly creatures had little use for the puny men who found themselves in the midst of an insect war! How Professor Orcutt was captured by ants with curiously manlike characteristics; how the members of his party found him and investigated the huge underground ant city; how they helped defend the ant men's ghostly underground caverns make this a completely gripping novel capped with a taut and electrifying climax sure to please readers of every age.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Black Swan Books, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 281040
- Title
- THE ANT MEN
- Author
- Eric North
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good binding
- Jacket Condition
- Fair dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John C. Winston Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 51952
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Black Swan Books, Inc.
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Richmond, Virginia
About Black Swan Books, Inc.
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