Blake Savage Illustrated by E Deane Cate (2 results)

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original orange cloth covers, black lettering to spine and upper panel. 8vo 7½" x 5¼" 183 pp. Monochrome illustrations and end papers. In Very Good clean and bright condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Hard Cover. Publicity Products Limited 1952. 1st Edition. Book condition: VG - Very Good. Black & White illustrations. Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet is a young adult science fiction novel written by Harold L. Goodwin under the pseudonym Blake Savage. The novel was originally published by Whitman in hardcover in 1952 and reprinted in the United Kingdom later in the same year as "Rip Foster Rides the Grey Planet". Freshly graduated and commissioned Planeteer (the space-going equivalent of a Marine) Lt. Richard Ingalls Peter ("Rip") Foster, already contending with inter-service rivalry with the Space Force (equivalent to Navy) crewmen with whom he serves, is tasked with retrieving an asteroid made of pure thorium from the asteroid belt and bringing it to Earth for use as fissionable material. In this he is opposed by agents of the "Consolidation of Peoples Governments", who also seek control and use of the asteroid. 183 pages. Size: 5" x 7" (130mm x 190mm). (1.2). E. Deane Cate (illustrator).…