ISBN: 9780283979415 - A Murray Leinster Omnibus (science Fiction Special 7) (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First this edition hardback with dustjacket. DJ is very tatty with wear and loss to edges, especially at spine. Internally clean. Spine is slightly weakened. Very good - / good - condition.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. This special edition of Science Fiction Special published in 1973 Omnibuses by Murray Leinster (Operation Terror, Invaders of Space and Checkpoint Lamda) and Philip K. Dick (The Crack in Space, The Unteleported Man and Dr. Futurity). All six novels had originally been published in paperback. Sidgwick & Jackson had previously published them as separate Leinster and Dick ominbuses so this is the second hardcover edition. The blue boards have slight fading to edges and bumping to corners and top of the spine. Page edges and endpapers are slightly browned and previous owners name in ink on front pastedown under the front flap. Quite heavy creasing to the bottom quarter of page 133 and light creasing to the next three pages but otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. Jacket has some fading to the spine and small patches of surface wear and chipping and rubbing to edges and corners. Top and bottom edges of jacket have several small closed tears with associated creasing. Jacket design by John Elsegood. First printing. Elsegood, John (illustrator).…

Hardcover. First edition thus (& 1st printing). Omnibus edition of two earlier Sidgwick & Jackson omnibus hardcovers (so this is an 'omnibus omnibus'?), with the Leinster volume collecting OPERATION TERROR, INVADERS OF SPACE and CHECKPOINT LAMBDA, and the Dick volume THE CRACK IN SPACE, THE UNTELEPORTED MAN and DR. FUTURITY. All three omnibuses (omnibi?) are very uncommon. Not listed in Levack: PKD: A Philip K. Dick Bibliography: Revised Edition (1988), even though in the introduction (in fact the very first sentence) it states ''This bibliography attempts to cite all the published works of Philip K. Dick through late 1984''. Fine copy in a fine (bright/unfaded) dustjacket but for a touch of edge wear.…