Mission to a Star
by Long, Frank Belknap
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- First edition, Hardcover, ex-library, Fair in Fair dust jacket,
- Seller
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Shingletown, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Avalon Books, 1964. First edition, Hardcover, ex-library, Fair in Fair dust jacket,. Ed Emshwiller. New York: Avalon Books:, 1964. First edition, Hardcover, ex-library, Fair in Fair dust jacket, 192 pp. Cover artwork by: Ed Emshwiller A reasonably tight and clean ex-library copy. Head lightly dusted, modest spine skew. The front flap of the jacket has been removed and what remains of the front flap has been affixed to the front paste-down. The rear flap copy has been removed and pasted to the rear past-down as has the rear flap of the jacket. The front FEP is absent. The front and rear panel of the jacket are complete and intact with very modest glue residue at lower extremity. Previous owner's name and date appears in pen near the gutter of the half-title page. A respectable copy of a most difficult find.
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Details
- Seller
- Ziesings (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 37717
- Title
- Mission to a Star
- Author
- Long, Frank Belknap
- Illustrator
- Ed Emshwiller
- Book Condition
- Used - First edition, Hardcover, ex-library, Fair in Fair dust jacket,
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Avalon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
Terms of Sale
Ziesings
Return books for full refund within two weeks of transaction date.
About the Seller
Ziesings
Biblio member since 2006
Shingletown, California
About Ziesings
Specializing in science fiction, fantasy, horror, small press and fine first editions.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...