Galactic Patrol

Smith, Edward E. (Ph. D) (E. E. Doc Smith) (Edward Elmer Smith)

Published by Fantasy Press, Reading, PA, 1950

Cover Art; This book is in Very Good condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book is in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The bottom to corners of the book covers have noticeable bumps. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several small edge tears, nicks and chips missing (the chips are mostly to the spine ends and corners. "Smith had been contemplating writing a "space-police novel" since early 1927 once he had "the Lensmen's universe fairly well set up", he reviewed his science-fiction collection for "cops-and-robbers" stories. He cites Clinton Constantinescue's "War of the Universe" as a negative example, and Starzl and Williamson as positive ones. Tremaine responded extremely positively to a brief description of the idea. Once Dawn Donuts became profitable in late 1936, Smith wrote an 85-page outline for what became the four core Lensman novels. In early 1937, Tremaine committed to buying them. Segmenting the story into four novels required considerable effort to avoid dangling loose ends. Smith cited Edgar Rice Burroughs as a negative example. After the outline was complete, he wrote a more detailed outline of Galactic Patrol, plus a detailed graph of its structure, with "peaks of emotional intensity and the valleys of characterization and background material." He notes, however, that he was never able to follow any of his outlines at all closely, as the "characters get away from me and do exactly as they damn please." After completing the rough draft of Galactic Patrol, he wrote the concluding chapter of the last book in the series, Children of the Lens. Galactic Patrol was published in the September 1937 through February 1938 issues of Astounding. Unlike the revised book edition, it was not set in the same universe as Triplanetary. " (from Wikipedia). Seller Inventory # A49854

Bibliographic Details

Title: Galactic Patrol
Publisher: Fantasy Press, Reading, PA
Publication Date: 1950
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Illustrated by Ric Binkley
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing.