Clement Hal Illustrated (11 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. H R Van Dongen Cover Art (illustrator). 1st Printing. Soft Cover. 1st Printing. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Very good paperback, light cover wear, else bright & tight book. Size 4x7 with 195 pages. "Bob & the Hunter depended on one another for dear life, until one of them suddenly became a killer.".

Soft cover. Condition: New. Illustrated by Dean Ellis (illustrator). Second Edition. PHOTO AND VIDEO OF PAGES TAKEN TO SHOW CONDITION PRIOR TO SHIPPING; photos of book emailed upon requestPHOTOS EMAILED FOR MORE SPECIFICS WHEN REQUESTED; Book. Book.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good Minus. Illustrated By Janet Aulisio (illustrator). First Trade Paperback. B&W illustrations throughout. 2000 years from now - the Earth has acid oceans, mutating, exploding plants, silent tentacled Observers, doomed Hill cities, nomad Outcasts, vicious power-mad rebels. The Earth does not have oxygen - it's all been trapped in The Nigrogen Fix. Wear at edges, reading creases, rubbed, light interior browning. Size: 5 1/4" x 8 1/2". TRADE PAPERBACK.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Powers, Richard (cover) (illustrator). First Printing. Berkeley 200, 185 pp. Paperback original, first printing. Spine a bit rolled with some creasing and scuffing along edges. Binding intact but looks to be a bit fragile. Some edge wear and rubbing, long but light crease across upper corner of cover. Pages tanned but text is clean and unmaked. A decent copy. Hal Clement was a master at inventing alien races and then telling a tale from their viewpoint, starting with his classic novel Mission of Gravity. Here, as elsewhere, we come to find that humans are the aliens in his stories. "After his ship crashed, Nils Kurger had spent weeks wandering across the face of the planet . . . suffering from the blistering heat, the searing cold of an alien climate. Now he had found a fellow wanderer. And it was not human. "Nils had no way of knowing how helpless or how dangerous the alien might be. It looked helpless, in fact it looked just as out of place on this planet as Nils was himself, but it also looked like nothing Nils had ever seen before. Whatever it was, there was just a chance that together they might stay alive. "Through months Nils and the creature marched together, shared adventure and escape - and grew to know each other. Then Nils made a disturbing discovery. "This creature, this thing called Dar, possessed a mind more powerful than his own . . . a mind totally retentive of facts, interpretation, analysis . . . a mind capable of feelings and desires fully as keen as Nils's own. And to this mind, Nils Kruger was the alien. "; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: VG to VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Book Club Edition. DJ: some rubbing & edgewear; small creases. Book: some rubbing & edgewear; yellowing; some duststaining on edges; otherwise overall clean & tight. 414 pages.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Krenkel, van Dongen, Schoenherr (cover) (illustrator). First Edition Thus. First Printing. Cover by Schoenherr for "Gravity Insufficient" (article) by Hal Clement. Includes "No Small Enemy" by Christopher Anvil; "Attrition" by Jim Wannamaker; "Sense of Obligation" (pt. 3 of 3; vt= "Planet of the Damned") by Harry Harrison; "A Problem in Communication" (article) by George O. Smith. Wrinkling on bottom of cover, wearing evident along spine, nicked edges, pencil mark on front, else fine. VERY GOOD. Analog Series. Vol. 68. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 178 pp.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Powers, Richard (cover) (illustrator). First Printing. Some edge wear and rubbing, chipping at top and base of spine, 1" tear to front cover along spine, light reading crease. Paged tanned but text clean and unmarked. Glue still sound but likely drying out some. Overall a nice copy considering its age. ; Berkeley 200, 185 pp. Paperback original, first printing. This book states in several places that it is an original publication. However, isfdb also lists a hardback edition, catalog number H-200 that it shows being printed at the same time. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 185 pages; Hal Clement was a master at inventing alien races and then telling a tale from their viewpoint, starting with his classic novel Mission of Gravity. Here, as elsewhere, we come to find that humans are the aliens in his stories. "After his ship crashed, Nils Kurger had spent weeks wandering across the face of the planet . . . Suffering from the blistering heat, the searing cold of an alien climate. Now he had found a fellow wanderer. And it was not human. "Nils had no way of knowing how helpless or how dangerous the alien might be. It looked helpless, in fact it looked just as out of place on this planet as Nils was himself, but it also looked like nothing Nils had ever seen before. Whatever it was, there was just a chance that together they might stay alive. "Through months Nils and the creature marched together, shared adventure and escape - and grew to know each other. Then Nils made a disturbing discovery. "This creature, this thing called Dar, possessed a mind more powerful than his own . . . A mind totally retentive of facts, interpretation, analysis . . . A mind capable of feelings and desires fully as keen as Nils's own. And to this mind, Nils Kruger was the alien. ".

Digest Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Freas, Kelly (illustrator). Vol. LXXXV, No. 6, Augus. Digest Magazine. Very Good. Vol. LXXXV, No. 6, Augus. A solid spine with light edge rubbing.Back cover has the SFBC form cut out. No store stamp. Stories by : Hal Clement, W. Macfariane, Ben Bova, Ha rlan Ellison. Howard L. Meyers, & Robert Chilson.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Dany Frolich (illustrator). 1st Edition; 1st Printing. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The endpapers have some light spots of foxing. The top edge of the text block has toning and foxing, and the foredge of the text block has foxing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but there is one small chip to the top rear spine joint. "From 1949 to 1953, Clement's first three novels were two-, three-, and four-part Astounding serials under Campbell: Needle (Doubleday, 1950) , Iceworld (Gnome Press, 1953) , and Mission of Gravity (1954) , his best-known novel, published by Doubleday's Science Fiction Book Club (established 1953). The latter novel features a land and sea expedition across the superjovian planet Mesklin to recover a stranded scientific probe. The natives of Mesklin are centipede-like intelligent beings about 50 centimeters long. Various episodes hinge on the fact that Mesklin's fast rotational speed causes it to be considerably deformed from the spherical, with effective surface gravity that varies from approximately 3 gn at the equator to approximately 700 gn at the poles. " (from Wikipedia).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Illustrated by Bob Eggleton (illustrator). First Edition. Hardcover first edition is fine in fine jacket in fine slipcase. Signed to ffep by Clement (Stubbs) and Eggleton. 54/225; 5.5 X 0.75 X 7.5 inches; 164 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Illustrated by Vincent Difate (illustrator). Collector's edition. Still stiff to open bound in full blue leather with gilt decoration, silk-moire endpapers, all edges gilt, and a ribbon marker still folded as it came from the publisher. About new but for nameplate to front pastedown. Collector's notes laid-in. ; 208 pages.