The Girls from Planet 5
by Richard Wilson
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Ballantine, 1955. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Richard Powers. First edition/printing. Small octavo. Book is in Near Fine condition (page tanning) and jacket is in Very Good condition. Nice Richard Powers jacket art! Author's first novel in which: "...Wilson made use of the arrivals from outer space to generate mocking perspectives on our own behaviour: from the strident patriarchy still attempting, in the first novel, to keep Texas pure although the rest of the USA has become a matriarchy, to the appalling consequences..." [JC] Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Ed. Internet.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Clarkean Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003140
- Title
- The Girls from Planet 5
- Author
- Richard Wilson
- Illustrator
- Richard Powers
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Ballantine
- Date Published
- 1955
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
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Stoney Creek, Ontario
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...