Author: BRACKETT, LEIGH (LEIGH DOUGLASS BRACKETT)
Title: The Long Tomorrow
Description: New York, NY: Doubleday Science Fiction, 1955. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Irv Docktor. Cover Art; This is a stated First Edition. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has edge wear, rubbing, bumping, several small edge nicks and tears and several small to smallish chips missing, mostly to the spine ends and corners. "Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 18, 1978) was an American science fiction writer known as "the Queen of Space Opera." She was also a screenwriter, known for The Big Sleep (1946) , Rio Bravo (1959) , and The Long Goodbye (1973). She worked on an early draft of The Empire Strikes Back (1980) , elements of which remained in the film; she died before it went into production. In 1956, her book The Long Tomorrow made her the first woman ever shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, and, along with C. L. Moore, one of the first two women ever nominated for a Hugo Award. In 2020, she posthumously won a Retro Hugo for her novel The Nemesis From Terra, originally published as Shadow Over Mars (Startling Stories, Fall 1944). " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .
Keywords: Science Fiction And Fantasy Leigh Brackett Queen Of Space Opera Dystopian Fiction Post Apocalypic Fiction Irv Docktor
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Title: The Long Tomorrow
Description: New York, NY: Doubleday Science Fiction, 1955. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Irv Docktor. Cover Art; This is a stated First Edition. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has edge wear, rubbing, bumping, several small edge nicks and tears and several small to smallish chips missing, mostly to the spine ends and corners. "Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 18, 1978) was an American science fiction writer known as "the Queen of Space Opera." She was also a screenwriter, known for The Big Sleep (1946) , Rio Bravo (1959) , and The Long Goodbye (1973). She worked on an early draft of The Empire Strikes Back (1980) , elements of which remained in the film; she died before it went into production. In 1956, her book The Long Tomorrow made her the first woman ever shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, and, along with C. L. Moore, one of the first two women ever nominated for a Hugo Award. In 2020, she posthumously won a Retro Hugo for her novel The Nemesis From Terra, originally published as Shadow Over Mars (Startling Stories, Fall 1944). " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .
Keywords: Science Fiction And Fantasy Leigh Brackett Queen Of Space Opera Dystopian Fiction Post Apocalypic Fiction Irv Docktor
Price: US$ 275.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 47082
- Book number: 47082
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