- Seller Inventory #: 5875
- Format: Hardcover; 1st Printing
- Book condition: F/F
- Illustrator: John T. Brooks (dj/decorations)
- Edition: 1st Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Fantasy Press
- Place: Reading, PA
- Date published: 1954
- Keywords: John Taine, Lost Worlds, Sci-fi, Dr. E. T. Bell
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press. F/F. 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover; 1st Printing. 10, 20, 24. 1st edition/1st printing. #101 of 300 signed in the 1st printing limited edition of 3000, addtionally personally inscribed by the author to a specific person. Fine straight, clean and tight book with no writing in it other than author's signature/inscription (which reads: "Cordial greetings to (name), John Taine"). The dustjacket is also fine: price intact, crisp, clean and unfaded with no tears or chips. The author in 'real life' was a professor of mathematics named Eric Temple Bell. In this novel, he blends science, math, botany into a sci-fi/adventure tale of a hulking assistant named GOG who accompanies 3 USSR scientists to the US. ; B&W Illustrations; Signed by Author .