The Billion Dollar Boy
by Charles Sheffield
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0312862040
- ISBN 13
- 9780312862046
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: A Tor Book/Tom Doherty Associates, 1997 A Tor Book/Tom Doherty Associates, New York. 1997. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. A Jupiter Novel. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: As New. DJ: As New; NOT Price Clipped ($22.95). Black boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 255 pp 8vo. This book is part of an ongoing program of exciting science fiction novels based on real science and a positive vision of tomorrow. This book is set in the same fascinating universe as Higher Education but centuries further in the future. As the result of a careless mistake, Shelby Cheever V is taken from a life of luxury and put in a mining colony in the Messina Dust Cloud, 27 light years from Earth. Away from hs previous life, he learns how to survive in space and fend for himself. His new life is full of dangers and surprises but it may also reveal the true shape of his destiny. A clean very presentable copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009807
- Title
- The Billion Dollar Boy
- Author
- Charles Sheffield
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0312862040
- ISBN 13
- 9780312862046
- Publisher
- A Tor Book/Tom Doherty Associates
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1997
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- science fiction, Jupiter novels, science fiction novels, Messina Dust Cloud, Outer Space, near-space milieu,
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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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....