TWO PLANETS by Lasswitz, Kurd - first edition hardcover, 1971

Popular Library. 1971. First edition. . Mass-market paperback. Good. cover is well-worn, with some staining to front, staining to page margins of a few pages. 383 p. . First English translation of "Auf zwei Planeten".

New York: Popular Library, 1976. First US Edition. Paperback. First paperback edition. Very faint crease along the spine on back cover. A near fine copy. Abridged by Erich Lasswitz. Translated by Hans H. Rudnick. Afterword by Mark R. Hillegas. "Wildly popular and influential on the continent... The book has been widely praised for its technological speculations. Its portrayal of Mars is based on the theories of Percival Lowell, a fact influencing its ideas about possible alien life and the potential of human beings." Barron, Anatomy of Wonder, 1981, 1-112. "Auf zwei Planeten is the great early German classic of science-fiction, a work that stood behind not only later German science-fiction, but also German rocketry, space research, and general career-science. Just as many American scientists were influenced as youngsters by the Martian novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, young German scientists, as Werner von Braun states, 'buried themselves in the pages of Auf zwei Planeten." Bleiler, Science-Fiction:… Read More

southern illinois university, first edition hardcover, 1971. fine book in a fine dust jacket