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The robot named Rex had been bought as a companion for Paul when the Simpsons decided to pioneer on Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter...a rough, dangerous satellite where a small boy needed a strong, intelligent robot to protect him. By the time Paul is sixteen, they are inseparable. Robots, of course, have a personality leeway that gives each one a certain individuality within its pattered capacities - and Rex had a wonderful personality, with a logic quotient that allowed him to reason. But when the Simpson family is ordered back to Earth and Paul refuses to part with Rex, the robot plans to stow away on a spaceship to Earth - no easy feat, even for a robot with Rex's abilities. Thrilling chases in skimmers, through spaceports, and over the deserts of Mars are just the start of the problems for The Runaway Robot!
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The Runaway Robot (A Junior Literary Guild Selection)
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket missing. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked interior text. Page block rebound in library boards. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Light scuffing and smudging to boards and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery. Seller Inventory # 1879436955
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The Runaway Robot
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Westminster Press, Philadelphia, 1965
ISBN 10: 0664323456
ISBN 13: 9780664323455
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Hardcover
Seller: Homeward Bound Books, Campbellcroft, ON, Canada
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Reprint. 176 p. 21 cm. Copyright date only, and dust jacket has an ISBN on it, indicating a later printing because the ISBN did not exist in 1965. Sound and square binding in beige, cloth-covered boards. Puncture mark on the upper board, does not go through board. Tape shadow marks to upper and lower boards where it was taped to the dustjacket. Ex-library indicators include card pocket in back, and a couple of stamps on the copyright page. Dustjacket was in original mylar which is now replaced with a fresh one. The jacket has a small L shaped tear to the upper front edge, a small ink squiggle on the rear panel and a call number sticker on the spine. Tape shadow marks on both flaps. The jacket has a price clip on the bottom corner of the front flap, with the tiny bit of the dollar sign remaining. Even with its faults, it's not an unattractive copy. A children's science fiction story about a robot named Rex and his human owner Paul and what happens when Paul is told he cannot take his robot from Jupiter back to Earth. This title was ghostwritten by Paul W. Fairman under Del Rey's name. Ex-Library. Seller Inventory # 4168
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The Runaway Robot (A Junior Literary Guild Selection)
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0664323456I5N10