Edited by barbara hoyle (4 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Good. GD+ Cover art by Peter Tybus.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. First U.K. edition, first printing. Contains publisher's "First published in Great Britain 1977" statement to the copyright page. Dust jacket art depicting a rocket-jet skiing, laser gun-firing, astronaut-suited man, by Ian Robertson. Hoyle, the renowned astronomer who created the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis, also wrote numerous science fiction novels spurred by scientific and space ideas, several, like this one, he co-authored with his son Geoffrey. This cross-genre novel involves cold war, espionage, cryptic messages in lectures, hidden messages in library books, a missing father, mind control, interplanetary travel, high-adventure, and power beams. Crisp. Corner tips minutely bumped, else fine and quite tight in textured blue boards with gilt embossed titles to the spine; in a fine dust jacket with a minuscule rub to the upper spine edge; original £3.50 printed price still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo; 183 pages.…

Condición: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine. 8vo 9" x 5½" 197 pages. ISBN 0906449278. Monochrome photographic illustrations. Near Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ASTRONAUTICS.…

First edition. Fine in dust jacket. The world's shortage of high-grade uranium and the action needed to obtain it turns on a Soviet threat to use nuclear blackmail against London. When the British Ambassador to the United Nations seeks to veto a Soviet demand for sanctions against South Africa, the threat becomes a hideous reality.…