David Starr, Space Ranger (His the Lucky Starr Series) - Hardcover
Book 1 of 6: The Lucky Starr Series
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Starr uncovers a Martian plot to ruin the economy of the earth's galactic colonies
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David Starr, Space Ranger (The Lucky Starr Series)
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Gregg Press, 1978
ISBN 10: 0839824866
ISBN 13: 9780839824862
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine copy in hardcover with fine jacket. Seller Inventory # 052287
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David Starr, Space Ranger (The Lucky Starr Series)
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0839824866I5N00
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David Starr, Space Ranger (The Lucky Starr Series)
Seller: Fables Books, Goshen, IN, U.S.A.
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Condition: good. This item has a different cover than shown in the listing, but shares the same ISBN. A former library book with all the expected stamps, stickers and markings. Some shelf, storage or usage wear present. The binding is tight and all pages are present. The dustjacket is covered in protective plastic. The pages appear unmarked. Pictures available upon request. Individually inspected by Shadow. Thanks for supporting an independent bookseller! Seller Inventory # FBV.0839824866.G
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David Starr: Space Ranger
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Twayne Publishers/Gregg Press, Boston, 1978
ISBN 10: 0839824866
ISBN 13: 9780839824862
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Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Wayne Barlowe (Jacket art) (illustrator). The format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8,25 inches. [2], vi, [4] 11-186, [2] pages. The illustrated dust jacket has some wear and soiling. This is the first volume of the six volume The Lucky Starr Series and contains a new Preface by the author! Starr uncovers a Martian plot to ruin the economy of the earth's galactic colonies. Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. A prolific writer, he wrote or edited more than 500 books. He also wrote an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Best known for his hard science fiction, Asimov also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as popular science and other non-fiction. From 1942 to 1945 during World War II, between his masters and doctoral studies, Asimov worked as a civilian chemist at the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Naval Air Experimental Station. ISAAC ASIMOV was one of the great science-fiction writers of our time. David Starr, Space Ranger is the first novel in the Lucky Starr series, six younger reader science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French. The novel was first published by Doubleday & Company. Reprints have included an introduction by Asimov explaining that advancing knowledge of conditions on Mars have rendered some of the novel's descriptions inaccurate. David Starr, Space Ranger introduces the series' setting and main characters. The novel is set around A.D. 7,000 (five thousand years after the first nuclear bomb, as stated at the beginning), when humanity has founded colonies on the inner planets of the Solar System, as well as spreading to other planetary systems. The most powerful organization in the Solar System is the Council of Science, which uses scientific expertise and intrepid field agents to counter political and military threats to Earth's government. Protagonist David Starr is a young biophysicist orphaned as an infant and raised by his guardians Augustus Henree and Hector Conway, high-ranking Council members who send David on his missions for the Council. They tell him of some 200 recent victims fatally poisoned by produce imported from Mars. Fearing a conspiracy to start a food panic and wreck interplanetary trade, they send Starr undercover to Mars. There Starr meets John "Bigman" Jones, a short but pugnacious Martian farmboy blacklisted by the Martian Farming Syndicates after witnessing underhanded dealings. When his former boss Hennes orders Bigman out of the Farm Employment Building, Starr stands up for him and gains positions for both himself and Bigman. Starr says his name is Williams and he came from Earth to investigate his sister's death from food poisoning. Makian sends him to the farm's agronomist Benson, who explains that the poisoned food came from several Martian farms and was exported through the domed Wingrad City. Meanwhile Makian and other farm owners have been pressured to sell their farms for ridiculously small sums. Benson makes Starr his assistant. Bigman receives his references from Hennes and takes his leave, but returns that night to the farm to meet Starr, and tells him he has recognized him as belonging to the Council. The underground Martians give Starr the name "Space Ranger", and present him with an immaterial mask producing a personal force field that can protect and disguise him. Starr uses the mask to shield himself from a Martian dust storm as he returns to Makian's farm, where he is questioned on how he survived the storm and answers that he was rescued by a masked man called the Space Ranger. Benson tells him the farm owners have received an extortion letter from the poisoner, threatening to a thousand fold increase of poisoned food unless they sell out to him within 36 hours. Disguised by his Martian mask, Starr confronts Hennes, who blinds himself firing a blaster at the protective field. Starr searches Hennes and finds incriminating evidence. The next day, at a meeting with Silvers, Makian, Hennes and Benson, Starr again appears as the masked Space Ranger. He reveals that it was Benson who poisoned the food while pretending to take samples of it, while Hennes was his accomplice in contact with criminal syndicates in the Asteroid Belt; the distraught Benson confesses. David Starr: Space Ranger is the only Asimov novel set on Mars. Asimov's Martian atmosphere is one-fifth as dense as Earth's and lacks oxygen. He does not mention the famous Martian canals. Writing in The New York Times, Ellen Lewis Buell reported that Asimov "ingeniously combines mystery with science fiction, saying that "his inventiveness and use of picturesque details" were reminiscent of Robert A. Heinlein. Groff Conklin praised the novel as effective: "no romance, parlous little science, but endless imagination, exciting ideas and events." Astounding reviewer P. Schuyler Miller described it as "fast-moving space opera of a type we all know." First Printing thus [Stated]--this is a reprint of the first edition published by Doubleday. Seller Inventory # 90028
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David Starr, Space Ranger (The Lucky Starr Series)
Published by
Gregg Press, Boston, 1978
ISBN 10: 0839824866
ISBN 13: 9780839824862
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Seller: Anthony Clark, Wolfville, NS, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Gregg Press, Boston, 1978, Hardcover First Edition Thus - originally published in 1952 under the pseudonym Paul French. Book is Close to new full grey cloth, but with a slight out lifting of the front board - very light, a tiny speck on the forward text edge and a small abrasion on the rear paste-down - listed as Near Fine, looks close to new. Dust jacket has a warble from moisture - a faint stain on one crease just on the inside of the jacket - see photos - otherwise Very Good minus, with an abrasion on the lower spine, Comes in a removable, archival mylar sleeve, which will clean things up - much better than it sounds. Seller Inventory # 002240
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David Starr: Space Ranger by Isaac Asimov (First Thus)
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Wayne Barlowe(Jacket Design) (illustrator). First Printing. David Starr: Space Ranger by Isaac Asimov (First Thus) A sharp tight copy. Gray cloth boards with stamp of author's autograph to front board. Bright pictorial dust jacket. Creasing to top left of front panel, including a small, .75 inch tear to top spine hinge. First Gregg Press edition. First Printing stated. The first volume in The Lucky Starr series. Includes a preface by Asimov. BOOK. Seller Inventory # HCX19321-1
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