9780709158721 - Metamorphosis by Ray, Robert (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Very Good +. First Edition. Book is in Very Good + condition. Boards have a tiny bit of shelf wear. Fore edges have a small amount of wear. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Very Good + condition. Tiny bit of shelf wear/rub. Tiniest bit of wear along the edges. Not price clipped. Dust Jacket is covered by Mylar wrapper. Thanks and Enjoy. All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. Thanks. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Missing all front endpapers etc up to start of chapter one, some shelf wear to boards, light shelf wear and tear to unclipped DJ which is attached with claer tape to inside covers. ; Black cloth boards with silver gilt lettering to spine. Good reading copy. ; 190 pages; Ex-space pilot turned con-man Josiph Rag is forced into pulling an armed robbery, but is killed whilst escaping into space. End of story? Not quite, as he's re-incarnated as a tentacled elongated cone.…

Hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). SF novel. Robert Hale produced books primarily for the library market (still flourishing in the 1970s) and so most titles are very uncommon. The only edition of this title. ''Hungarian-born author, who may have changed or modified his name after coming to the UK in 1957. He began publishing sf with ''The Craving for Blackness'' in New Worlds for September 1962, set in a world where only women can go into space. His sf novels, bleak but otherwise unexceptional, are No Stars for Us (1964), The Seedy (1969) - whose titular protagonist is a fertile exception to near-universal sterility caused by a planetary disaster, in this case atmospheric nuclear testing - and METAMORPHOSIS (1976). This author should not be confused with Robert Ray, a pseudonym used by Al Bernstein for a single story in 1950. Robert Hale was a UK publishing firm which from 1936 - 1984, though mainly in the 1970s, published more than 450 sf novels, in hardbound editions, primarily for the library market. A large majority of titles originating with the firm were uniform in length (192 pages) and routine in substance, most being Space Operas varied with occasional Dystopias, though other forms of sf also featured'' (John Clute & David Langford/Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition). Page edges spotted, and splash stain along top of fore-edge, faint spotting to free endpapers, a near fine copy in a VG dustjacket with splash stain to part of rear (white) cover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First brit. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Hardcover has foxed top edge, dustwrapper chipped at spine top edge, tiny tear top front, back smudged.