London: Bantam Press. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0593022203 . 1st edition hardback in d/w; book would have been fine, but it has an ex-libris sticker of the previous owner on the fep & some foxing spots on top foredges of pages; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages .

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As director of the Jerhattan Parapsychic Center, telepath Rhyssa Owen coordinated the job assignments for psychically gifted Talents. And though she had her hands full dealing with the unreasonable demand for kinetics to work on the space platform that would be humankind's stepping-stone to the stars, she was always ready to welcome new Talents to the Center.Feisty and streetwise, twelve-year-old Tirla used her extraordinary knack for languages to eke out a living in the Linear developments, where the poor struggled to make ends meet and children were conscripted or sold into menial work programs. Young Peter, paralyzed in a freak accident, hoped someday to get into space where zero gravity would enable him to function more easily. Both desperately needed help only other Talents could provide.With the appearance in her life of one extraordinary man with no measurable Talent at all, Rhyssa suddenly found herself questioning everything she thought she knew about her people. And when two Talented children were discovered to have some very unusual -- and unexpected -- abilities, she realized that she would have to reassess the potential of all Talentkind...From the Paperback edition.

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Bookseller: Peakirk Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 103218
Title: Pegasus in Flight
Author: McCaffrey, Anne
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0593022203
ISBN 13: 9780593022207
Publisher: Bantam Press
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1991
Keywords: 0593022203

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