JOHN CARSTAIRS SPACE DETECTIVE. New York: Frederick Fell, Inc., [1949]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. The author's second book of fiction and first novel. A fix-up novel of stories first published in the pulps featuring John Carstairs, an interstellar botanical detective. Moskowitz, Strange Horizons, p. 156. Review slip laid in. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with fraying and shallow chipping at spine ends and touch of fade to spine panel. (#174916).
Price: $100.00
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"FIRST PRINTING SEPTEMBER 1949" on copyright page.
"FIRST PRINTING SEPTEMBER 1949" on copyright page.