Derleth august edits (2 Ergebnisse)

8vo. pp 14. Wraps. Original publisher's illustrated white stapled covers, lettered black. Very good.

First edition. Hardcover. Edges, endpapers and pages early and late a little foxed, two ownership stamps on the front endpapers (one from a bookseller), o/w good in like price-clipped dustjacket with some closed tears and a few small restored chips. A selection of seven S/F stories, all dealing with the theme of invasion from another world, or counter-attack from Earth against the planets. The authors are: Simak, del Rey, Eric Frank Russell, Asimov, Wyndham, Wandrei, and Clark Ashton Smith. An influential anthology: however, this British hardcover omits 7 stories, as does the US paperback of the same title. The US hardcover contains the full quota.…