ANDERSON, Poul. The Makeshift Rocket
ANDERSON, Poul. The Makeshift Rocket. London: Dennis Dobson. 1969. 8vo. First hardcover edition—originally published as an Ace paperback original. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in silver gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Richard Weaver. A very good copy, the cloth clean though the boards a touch discoloured. The binding tight and square, fine but for a little offsetting to the endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped (18s net), a couple of noticeable tears to the top edge front panel, light marks to the white sections of the wraparound design. Flaps toned, but a nice copy overall. Uncommon.
A novella for the ages—drunkards, Irish revolutionaries, and a rocket propelled by the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems—beer! Anderson was a prolific SF author who was hugely admired by his contemporaries, winning numerous awards and holding various high-profile positions. That said, he is “still not as well defined a figure in the pantheon of American sf as writers (like Isaac Asimov from the Golden Age of SF and Frank Herbert from a decade later) of about the same age and certainly no greater skill.” [sf-encyclopedia].
ANDERSON, Poul. The Makeshift Rocket. London: Dennis Dobson. 1969. 8vo. First hardcover edition—originally published as an Ace paperback original. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in silver gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Richard Weaver. A very good copy, the cloth clean though the boards a touch discoloured. The binding tight and square, fine but for a little offsetting to the endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped (18s net), a couple of noticeable tears to the top edge front panel, light marks to the white sections of the wraparound design. Flaps toned, but a nice copy overall. Uncommon.
A novella for the ages—drunkards, Irish revolutionaries, and a rocket propelled by the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems—beer! Anderson was a prolific SF author who was hugely admired by his contemporaries, winning numerous awards and holding various high-profile positions. That said, he is “still not as well defined a figure in the pantheon of American sf as writers (like Isaac Asimov from the Golden Age of SF and Frank Herbert from a decade later) of about the same age and certainly no greater skill.” [sf-encyclopedia].
ANDERSON, Poul. The Makeshift Rocket. London: Dennis Dobson. 1969. 8vo. First hardcover edition—originally published as an Ace paperback original. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in silver gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Richard Weaver. A very good copy, the cloth clean though the boards a touch discoloured. The binding tight and square, fine but for a little offsetting to the endpapers. The dust jacket unclipped (18s net), a couple of noticeable tears to the top edge front panel, light marks to the white sections of the wraparound design. Flaps toned, but a nice copy overall. Uncommon.
A novella for the ages—drunkards, Irish revolutionaries, and a rocket propelled by the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems—beer! Anderson was a prolific SF author who was hugely admired by his contemporaries, winning numerous awards and holding various high-profile positions. That said, he is “still not as well defined a figure in the pantheon of American sf as writers (like Isaac Asimov from the Golden Age of SF and Frank Herbert from a decade later) of about the same age and certainly no greater skill.” [sf-encyclopedia].