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Sidewise in Time and Other Scientific Adventures
by Murray Leinster
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- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/missing
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About This Item
Chicago: Shasta, 1950. first. hardcover. Good/missing. First edition, missing dust jacket. Burgundy cloth covered boards with silver print on the spine. Spine has slight lean. Some stray pen marks on front free end paper, and prior owner's book plate on the half title page. Shasta Publishers, 1950 first edition (stated), 211 pages. 8vo (5"" x 7.75"") Collects six stories. Includes ""A Logic Named Joe"" (1946), an early computer story, and ""Sidewise in Time"" (1934), a flamboyant tale that introduced alternate histories into pulp SF. Also included: De Profundis, Proxima Centauri, The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator, and The Power.
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- Bookseller
- Bujoldfan
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11012305sidewisecar
- Title
- Sidewise in Time and Other Scientific Adventures
- Author
- Murray Leinster
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- missing
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first
- Publisher
- Shasta
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1950
- Pages
- 211
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Story Collection
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction / Fantasy; First editions;
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