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SINISTER BARRIER
by Russell, Eric Frank
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- Rubbing to cloth with some fade to spine, an about very good copy in a fine, bright dust jacket. (30280)
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About This Item
Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1948. First U.S. edition. Rubbing to cloth with some fade to spine, an about very good copy in a fine, bright dust jacket. (30280). Octavo, cover art by A.J. Donnell, cloth. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Russell. This is copy number 280. The author's first book. This edition is expanded from the 1943 British first edition. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-942. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2075-78. In 333.
Synopsis
Sinister Barrier is an English language science fiction novel by author Eric Frank Russell. It was first published in book form in 1943 by The World's Work, Ltd. The novel originally appeared in the magazine Unknown in 1939, the first novel to appear in its pages. Russell revised and expanded the book for its first US publication by Fantasy Press in 1948. Most subsequent editions were based on the Fantasy Press version.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30280
- Title
- SINISTER BARRIER
- Author
- Russell, Eric Frank
- Book Condition
- Used - Rubbing to cloth with some fade to spine, an about very good copy in a fine, bright dust jacket. (30280)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Publisher
- Fantasy Press
- Place of Publication
- Reading, PA
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- SF . Signed
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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