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Fred Hoyle. Three Novels, including:... (Total: 3 Items)
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Fred Hoyle. Three Novels, including: The Black Cloud. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, [1957]. Octavo. x, 250 pages. Publisher's quarter black shelf back over black and gray weave boards with the publisher's imprint in orange on the front cover and the spine lettered in orange. Black and red dust jacket. Some minor rubbing to the cover and jacket, sunned spine, slight moisture damage to the back of the jacket, some tiny closed tears to the head of the jacket spine. Altogether a very good copy. Sir Fred Hoyle, astrophysicist, penned this work as his first science fiction novel about an enormous cloud of gas which blocks the Sun from Earth, and thus threatens the existence of life. [and:] The Molecule Men. By Sir Fred Hoyle and Geoffrey Hoyle. New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, Publishers, [1971]. Book Club Edition. Octavo. 214 pages. Publisher's light blue boards with the spine lettered in darker blue. Illustrated dust jacket. Very minor rubbing to the jacket, tiny closed tears to the top edges of the jacket, otherwise a near fine copy. These two short novels authored by father and son were first published in England with the title The Molecule Men and the Monster of Loch Ness. [and:] Element 79. [New York]: The New American Library, [1967]. First printing. 180 pages. Black cloth covers with the spine lettered in pink and purple. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Stanislaw Zagorski. Purple coated endpapers. Some rubbing to the covers and jacket, some tiny closed tears to the head and foot of the spine, some bumping to the corners. Altogether a very good copy. Due to Hoyle's intense scientific knowledge, he can present possibilities, both presently and in the future.Auction Info
2008 June Grand Format Books & Manuscripts Auction #683 (go to Auction Home page)
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