Siodmak Curt Smith Robert (13 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [1st printing](1953) #58. Cover is uncredited [Richard Powers]; rear cover tie-in photos. Paperback original. Scratches to front; edge and corner wear; tanning. Book.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [1st printing](1953) #58. Cover is uncredited [Richard Powers]; rear cover tie-in photos. Paperback original. Creasing; lean; edgewear; mild tanning; name in pen on first page. Book.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [1st printing](1953) #58. Cover is uncredited [Richard Powers]; rear cover tie-in photos. Paperback original. Marks on light pen on front cover. Book.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [1st printing](1953) #58. Cover is uncredited [Richard Powers]; rear cover tie-in photos. Paperback original. Store stamp on first page; minor bumps and stress; small stain at lower front foredge corner. Book.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [1st printing](1953) #58. Cover is uncredited [Richard Powers]; rear cover tie-in photos. Paperback original. Small label pull inside cover; a few small, heavy bumps have perforated rear cover near lower edge; slight rubbing and edge wear. Book. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good / Very Good. First Edition By This Publisher. 166 pages. "Three men gamble their lives in space -- to change the history of the world. Enjoy this movie tie-in edition! " >>Cover creasing; red felt marker to front cover; spine slant; pen to interior front cover & front end page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. RICHARD (DICK) POWERS Painted Cover Art (illustrator). Book.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Wraps. PBO (Paperback Original). PBO, Paperback Original, 1st Printing, Ballantine # 58. Mass Market PB in illustrated wraps. Near Fine w/trace slant, scuffed spine and rear cover, else Fine and unmarked. 214pp; Richard Powers cover art. Rear cover shows Movie Tie-In. 0. Book.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good+ to Near Fine. First Edition. [1st printing](1953) #58. Cover is uncredited [Richard Powers]; rear cover tie-in photos. Paperback original. Minor cver losses; tanning; minor creasing and edgewear. Book.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. ----------vintage paperback. A movie tie-in, back cover shows photos from the film starring Richard Carlson, Herbert Marshall and William Lundigan. Faint reading and corner creases, minor edgewear, a near fine copy. Richard Powers (front cover) (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The paperback original first edition (per ISFDB) with "Copyright, 1953" and LCCN 53-13081 on its copyright page. This book is in near fine condition, marred only by a shallow crease in its front hinge. Its binding is tight and square, with no spine crease. Covers are unmarked and otherwise unworn. Pages are unmarked and unworn. I will ship this book in a moisture proof zip-loc bag, padded in bubble wrap, inside a sturdy box to assure it reaches its new owner in the same condition as my description.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 166 pp. Ballantine Book 58. Lightly rubbed on the corners with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Richard Powers. Directed by Richard Carlson and Herbert L. Strock, this was filmed in 1954, starring William Lundigan, Herbert Marshall, Richard Carlson, Martha Hyer, Dawn Addams, and others. Richard Powers; (illustrator). Book.…

Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Books 58. Novelization of Siodmak's screenplay by Robert Smith. Several very faint creases to lower right corner of front cover, a nearly fine copy. Cover art by Richard Powers. (#94584).

Condition: A fine copy, unread. (30342). First edition. Small octavo, cover painting by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. Ballantine Books 58. Novelization of Siodmak's screenplay by Robert Smith, published before the release of the 1954 film. The rear cover of the book has stills from the film.The Science Fiction Encyclopedia online offers some interesting commentary on this film which predates the coming space race: ".this is one of the few films, and perhaps the only film, that accurately predicted the course of the American space programme. Space Flight would be achieved by a government programme - not brilliant individuals or patriotic businessmen; space pilots would be carefully selected and rigorously trained before flight, in contrast to films in which people build a Rocket and then look around to see what random individuals might be available to join its crew on short notice; the first steps into space would involve suborbital flights, not a pioneering flight to the Moon or Mars; and astronauts in space would be carefully monitored by, and in constant communication with, technicians on the ground who would continually advise them as they carried out their missions, unlike cinematic astronauts who, once in space, are all on their own. All of these characteristics of actual space flight were meticulously predicted in this film; as a result, while other early space films can now be dismissed as irrelevant to current concerns, Riders to the Stars is a film that remains in dialogue with the ongoing conquest of space, addressing any number of still-significant issues: do the rewards of space flight justify the risks to human lives? What sorts of individuals are best qualified to travel into space? Should space missions be controlled by knowledgeable observers on the ground, or by the astronauts who are actually in the midst of events?" In retrospect this has to be considered an important contribution to 1950s science fiction film making.…