The Secret of the Ninth Planet
by Wollheim, Donald A
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Lukeville , Arizona, United States
Item Price
$166.00$132.80
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Philadelphia, The John C. Winston Company, 1959, hardcover, 201 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight, bright, and clean with no markings, slight spine end and corner wear, tiny exterior dampstain and touch of fade to head of spine. Very brightly-colored, first state dustjacket with thirty-one titles on the rear panel, unclipped and bearing original price, tiny chips to spine-ends and corners, short closed edge tear to top front panel, a few tiny abrasions to front panel, in new Brodart sleeve. A high school senior joins an Air Force expedition attempting the first circumnavigation of the solar system to determine the cause of the sudden dimming of light and drop in temperature around the world.
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- Bookseller
- West of Eden Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10820
- Title
- The Secret of the Ninth Planet
- Author
- Wollheim, Donald A
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition stated, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction; Fiction/Science Fiction - Alien Contact; General; Science; Science Fiction; Space Opera
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West of Eden Books
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Lukeville , Arizona
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