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Shellbreak

Hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). SF novel, one of two the author wrote for Robert Hale (though he had earlier - from 1931 - had stories published in the sf magazines). Robert Hale produced books primarily for the library market (still flourishing in the 1970s): the US 1970 Paperback Library edition is easily available but this UK hardcover from 1968 is very uncommon. ''UK author, variously employed, who began publishing sf with ''The Sphere of Death'' for Amazing in October 1931, but whose career consisted mainly of desultory magazine publications until his first novel for Robert Hale Limited, SHELLBREAK (1968), in which a man awakens in 2505 CE armed with knowledge that helps him to topple a corrupt dictatorship. The Heels of Achilles (1969) presents a world in which the dead have come mysteriously to life. Robert Hale was a UK publishing firm which from 1936 - 1984, though mainly in the 1970s, published more than 450 sf novels, in hardbound editions, primarily for the library market. A large majority of titles originating with the firm were uniform in length (192 pages) and routine in substance, most being Space Operas varied with occasional Dystopias, though other forms of sf also featured'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition). Top page edges show light spotting, else a fine copy in a near fine dustjacket with light dust-soiling to rear (white) panel. Nº de ref. del artículo: 47123

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