Peter Van De Camp (6 results)

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Reading Copy. Vol. XXII, No. 2. [Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.] Cover art by H. W. Brown. Includes "Hunger Death" (novelette) by Clifford D. Simak; "Other Tracks" (novelette) by William Sell; "Sunworld of Soldus" (novelette) by Nat Schachner; "Magician of Dream Valley" by Raymond Z. Gallun; "Orestes Revolts" by Eando Binder; "The Command" by L. Sprague de Camp; "The Ceres Affair" by Kent Casey; "The Tramp" (pt. 2 of 3) by L. Ron Hubbard. Sciience Feature: "Why Rockets Don't Fly" by Peter van Dresser. Readers' Departments: "In Times to Come"; "The Analytical Laboratory"; "Editor's Page"; "Science DIscussions and Brass Tacks". Illustrated by Dold, Wert, Jack Binder, and others. Letters from Jim Blish & Isaac Asimov. Stained, creased and wavy; tanned; many internal corner losses with some minor loss to text; many corners creased; tears and small losses; fragile, with tears, but readable. Filler, or Reading copy. Book.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good-. Vol. XXII, No. 2. [Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.] Cover art by H. W. Brown. Includes "Hunger Death" (novelette) by Clifford D. Simak; "Other Tracks" (novelette) by William Sell; "Sunworld of Soldus" (novelette) by Nat Schachner; "Magician of Dream Valley" by Raymond Z. Gallun; "Orestes Revolts" by Eando Binder; "The Command" by L. Sprague de Camp; "The Ceres Affair" by Kent Casey; "The Tramp" (pt. 2 of 3) by L. Ron Hubbard. Sciience Feature: "Why Rockets Don't Fly" by Peter van Dresser. Readers' Departments: "In Times to Come"; "The Analytical Laboratory"; "Editor's Page"; "Science DIscussions and Brass Tacks". Illustrated by Dold, Wert, Jack Binder, and others. Letters from Jim Blish & Isaac Asimov. no back cover; spine taped; tanning; minor edge and corner chips. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good blue cloth boards in a very good dust jacket in a mylar cover. A general introduction to the theory, technique, reduction methods and results of astrometry, particularly of long-focus photographic astrometry.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mudge-Marriott, Eric (illustrator). 1st Edition. First UK edition containing 14 of the 18 stories in the US edition which was published in 1951 under the title 'The Best Science Fiction Stories:1951' by Frederick Fell. Boards have very slight bumping to the corners. Page edges are lightly browned with some brown spotting to the top edges and a tiny dark mark to the bottom edges. Endpapers are browned but pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket has slight edge wear and discolouration to the rear panel. Jacket illustration by Eric Mudge-Marriott. First printing.

Condition: New.

Condition: Very good.