Author: CLIFFORD D.SIMAK
Title: Cosmic Engineers. An Interplanetary Novel.
Description: Gnome Press, New York, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 224pp. First state binding of blue cloth lettered in yellow at the spine and upper board with a small rocket-ship vignette. Top edge very lightly spotted and with just a touch of bruising to the backstrip ends. A virtually fine copy in non-price-clipped ($2.50) dust wrapper, with a little chafing to the spine panel ends, several corner tips and to one or two of the natural folds. The author's first full-length novel, expanded from a 'short novel' originally serialised over three issues of 'Astounding Science Fiction' between February-April 1939. 6,000 copies were printed, 1,000 of which were bound into wrappers for an armed forces edition. Near Fine/Very Good.

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