CONKLIN, Groff [ed.] Invaders of Earth
CONKLIN, Groff [ed.] Invaders of Earth: More Tales of Space and Time. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1953. First edition thus; the US volume contains different stories. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in silver gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A very good copy, the black cloth a little marked and stained, but firm, the binding tight and square. Light spots to the textblock top edge, else fine. The dust jacket clipped with printed price of 5s retained. Some light rubbing and discreet closed tears along the corners and spine tips, but an attractive copy.
A collection of interplanetary invasion tales from leading authors in the science fiction genre, including A. E. van Vogt, Edgar Pangborn, and Anthony Boucher. Perhaps most notable is Howard Koch’s ‘Invasion from Mars’, a modern-day radio script adaptation of H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. Orson Welles narrated its broadcast in 1938, and its ‘breaking news’ style resulted, it is purported, in tens of thousands of Americans wholly convinced the East Coast was under genuine Martian invasion.
CONKLIN, Groff [ed.] Invaders of Earth: More Tales of Space and Time. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1953. First edition thus; the US volume contains different stories. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in silver gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A very good copy, the black cloth a little marked and stained, but firm, the binding tight and square. Light spots to the textblock top edge, else fine. The dust jacket clipped with printed price of 5s retained. Some light rubbing and discreet closed tears along the corners and spine tips, but an attractive copy.
A collection of interplanetary invasion tales from leading authors in the science fiction genre, including A. E. van Vogt, Edgar Pangborn, and Anthony Boucher. Perhaps most notable is Howard Koch’s ‘Invasion from Mars’, a modern-day radio script adaptation of H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. Orson Welles narrated its broadcast in 1938, and its ‘breaking news’ style resulted, it is purported, in tens of thousands of Americans wholly convinced the East Coast was under genuine Martian invasion.
CONKLIN, Groff [ed.] Invaders of Earth: More Tales of Space and Time. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1953. First edition thus; the US volume contains different stories. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in silver gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A very good copy, the black cloth a little marked and stained, but firm, the binding tight and square. Light spots to the textblock top edge, else fine. The dust jacket clipped with printed price of 5s retained. Some light rubbing and discreet closed tears along the corners and spine tips, but an attractive copy.
A collection of interplanetary invasion tales from leading authors in the science fiction genre, including A. E. van Vogt, Edgar Pangborn, and Anthony Boucher. Perhaps most notable is Howard Koch’s ‘Invasion from Mars’, a modern-day radio script adaptation of H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. Orson Welles narrated its broadcast in 1938, and its ‘breaking news’ style resulted, it is purported, in tens of thousands of Americans wholly convinced the East Coast was under genuine Martian invasion.