Hard cover, in very good condition, with clipped dust jacket, in good condition. Light shelf and handling wear; minor creasing and wear to DJ edges and corners, small rubbed area to front cover, light scores and scuffs. Boards very clean, pages tightly bound, and content unmarked. CN
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Seller: Orphaned Artifacts LLC, Arnold, MO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. State 1st Printing. I have placed the Jacket in a NEW removable Brodart/mylar sleeve for great presentation and preservation. Clean and tight, mark-free. NOT an ex-library discard, SHIPS FAST! ! ! Please examine images and ask any questions you may have, Thanks for looking! ; Macmillan's Best of Soviet Science Fiction; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 157 pages. Seller Inventory # 0126_3542_DEL13
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition in English. Macmillan's Best of Soviet Science Fiction. viii, [2], 157 p. 22 cm. Quarter black cloth and blue paper boards. Mylar-covered dustjacket. Ink stamp on front free endpaper. This 1925 science fiction and horror story features a mad scientist, toiling away in his own private hospital, illegally performing grotesque experimental head transplants and reanimations on bodies stolen from the morgue. Writing in the early days of the Soviet Union, Beliaev dealt with issues of identify and ethics the whole world ponders today. Seller Inventory # 151420
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing. In the 1920s and 1930s, Beliaev was the best selling Soviet science fiction writer - sometimes called "Russia's Jules Verne." This classic science fiction and horror story, originally published in 1925, features a mad scientist secretly performing experimental head transplantations on bodies stolen from the morgue and a beautiful young woman, hired as his assistant, who befriends the head of Professor Dowell. Although written more than a hundred years ago, this "foresees not only organ transplants but also . the use of mental hospitals as prisons and the manipulation of the news media." A title in Macmillan's "Best of Soviet SF" series with an introduction by Theodore Sturgeon, who comments that Beliaev was writing at the same time as Weird Tales was transforming US science fiction. Translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis. Jacket art by Richard Powers. 157 pp. Near fine in royal blue boards with a black cloth spine, silver lettering, in a near fine dust jacket (remainder dot, a few small nicks to the edges of the dj, rubbing to back cover, original price of 8.95 on front flap) Overall, a very attractive copy of a rather hard-to-find book. Seller Inventory # 93546
Seller: Uncle Hugo's SF/Uncle Edgar's Mystery, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Jacket lightly rubbed with minor edgewear. Seller Inventory # 098283