The Ant Men
by North, Eric
"There's a feeling about this desert which frankly suggests...impossible things. That's the only way I can put it."
The feeling that Professor Silas Orcutt, an American geologist, refers to early in this story, is one that every reader of this rugged and thrilling science fiction novel will share with him after the very first page. The professor, head of a party of five studying geological formations in the Central Australian desert, thought back on the nightmare of shifting sand and crackling electrical charges that had wrecked the truck in which his party was traveling. He thought, too, of the skeleton of a freshly killed crocodile - found hundreds of miles from the nearest river - and the stench of formic acid that remained around its picked-clean bones.
The professor's intrepid little group was prepared to find fossils in the Australian rock strata - but not the living kind that shocked them into believing the impossible of the burnt-out lands of the continent down under. Trapped in a desert valley under the pitiless sun, the five found themselves face to face with six-foot-tall ants and deadly giant mantises: survivors from before the dawn of history. Locked in a harrowing war for survival, these deadly creatures had little use for the puny men who found themselves in the midst of an insect war!
How Professor Orcutt was captured by ants with curiously manlike characteristics; how the members of his party found him and investigated the huge underground ant city; how they helped defend the ant men's ghostly underground caverns make this a completely gripping novel capped with a taut and electrifying climax sure to please readers of every age.
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Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1955. Near Fine, small mark top edge of page block, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket, 1/4" chip top edge at spine, smaller chip bottom edge of spine. Jacket and end page illustrations by Alex Schomburg. A lovely copy indeed ! Part of the classic Winston Science Fiction series for young readers published… Read more about this item Item Price
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Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1955. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Blaisdell, Paul (jacket). Near Fine book, in a Very Good, and complete and unclipped, jacket. See scans and description. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1955. First Edition [stated] and first printing. Octavo, russet cloth, 216 pp.; illustrated jacket by Paul Blaisdell, correct… Read more about this item Item Price
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ANT MEN [THE]
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Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. A Science Fantasy Novel. vii, 216 p. 22 cm. Illustrated endpapers. Red cloth in mylar-covered pictorial dustjacket. Jacket illustration by Paul Blaisdell and endpaper design by Alex Schomburg Some chips and tears to jacket edges. Front flap price clipped. Ink signature on front free endpaper and inscription… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York:: Holt Rinehart and Winston,, 1960.. Second printing.. Hardcover.. Publishers brown cloth some minor soiling/rubbing but overall very good. Small bookseller stamp at last endpaper. Illustrated dust jacket with some minor edge wear and soiling inside flaps with corners clipped but price and info still intact overall presents very good in new protective mylar. Priced to go.… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE ANT MEN
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Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1953]. First edition. Previous owners name in ink to rear free end paper, mild tanning to page edges, a fine copy in a fine price clipped first printing dust jacket (twenty-six titles listed on the rear panel). A bright, sharp copy. Part of an original single owner collection. (27533). Octavo, jacket… Read more about this item Item Price
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Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, 51952. First Edition. Very Good binding/Fair dust jacket. A clean First Edition copy with no marks of any kind. The dustjacket -- while still portraying some splendid ants -- is compromised with a nearly two inch piece missing from the bottom of the spine, and some significant loss to the top edge… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE ANT MEN. (MacFadden Book # 60-434);
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USA: Macfadden-Bartell Corp., 1969. Book. Illus. by Painted Cover Art!. Good to Very Good.. Soft cover. Second Edition.. 175 pages. "Man hurtles backward in time. and finds a nightmare world where pre-historic monsters rule the earth." >> Spine on slight slant; pen to backcover; Store stamp & minor pen to front end page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾"… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE ANT MEN
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Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1953]. First edition. Former owner's name stamp to front free endpaper, a fine copy in a nearly fine first printing dust jacket (twenty-six titles listed on the rear panel), touch of rubbing to extremities, closed tear with fold to lower rear panel, titles listed on rear panel have ink check marks. (14076).… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Ant Men (Winston Science Fiction)
by Eric North
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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, September 2015. Trade . Very Good. Very Good Softcover. Light shelfwear to covers. Pages clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984. Item Price
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