ROGUE QUEEN. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Part of de Camp's "Viagens Interplanetarias" series. "Human explorers bring about a revolution on another planet: the matriarchal alien hive-dwellers learn the virtues of democracy. Adventure with touches of satire, told in the its author's customary light manner." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 310. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-136. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 240. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1827-31. Review slip laid in. A fine copy in bright, near fine dust jacket with light shelf wear at edges, minor dust soiling to rear panel, and just a hint of the usual fading to spine panel. An attractive copy. Formerly, Donald A. Wollheim's copy with his name stamped in ink on rear free endpaper. (#86365).
Price: $150.00
First edition so stated on copyright page.