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Alfred Coppel : Night of Fire and Snow

Simon & Schuster, New York, 1957

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. CL3 - A first edition (First printing stated) hardcover book SIGNED by author on a bookplate ahdered on the second page in very good condition in fair dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, crease, and tears on the edges, corners, and sides, some scattered scuffing, rubbing and stains, some marked out info on the front flap, tanning, and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners and light cover edgewear, some stains and fading on the page edges, some marked out info on the front endpapers, darkened endpapers, tanning, and light shelf wear. Night of Fire and Snow is told over the hum of an airplane bringint Mike Rinehart back to America from paris. He had gone to Europe to forget his past, but the past had followed him there, and the pull of its unresolved relationship is forcing his return. Now, on his way home - to New York and then on to California - his mind journeys back through his thiirty-three years: to an apartment on Telegraph Hill, to the bars and partiees and V-girls of wartime San Francisco, to a summer house where loving and hating began. 8.5"x6", 373 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Alfred Coppel (Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel) was an American author. Born in Oakland, California, he served as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After his discharge, he started his career as a writer. He became one of the most prolific pulp authors of the 1950s and 1960s, adopting the pseudonyms Robert Cham Gilman and A.C. Marin and writing for a variety of pulp magazines and later "slick" publishers. Though writing in a variety of genres, including action thrillers, he is known for his science fiction stories which comprise both short stories and novels. Coppel's first science fiction story was "Age of Unreason" (1947) in Amazing Stories. Other short stories include "The Dreamer" (1952) about a man called Denby, who wants to be the first to orbit the moon, published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and reprinted in the anthology Best Short Shorts, (1958) edited by Eric Berger. His 1960 post-holocaust novel Dark December describes the aftermath of nuclear war. As Robert Cham Gilman, he wrote the Rhada sequence of science fiction novels aimed at the young adult market. These space operas set within a galactic empire comprise: The Rebel of Rhada (1968), The Navigator of Rhada (1969), The Starkahn of Rhada (1970) and a prequel called The Warlock of Rhada (1985). The Rebel of Rhada is an expansion, with many changes including a significantly different ending, of "The Rebel of Valkyr," published in 1950 under his own name and included in Brian Aldiss's collection Galactic Empires. The Burning Mountain: A Novel of the Invasion of Japan, (1983), is an alternate history depicting what could have happened if the United States and its allies had been forced to invade Japan in 1946, had the Trinity test of the Fat Man nuclear design tested on July 16, 1945, failed. This is based on the Operation Coronet and Operation Olympic United States battle plans for the invasion of Japan, which were rendered moot by Japan's surrender after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In 1974, he had a bestseller with the suspense thriller Thirty-Four East about the Arab-Israeli conflict. Another political thriller was The Apocalypse Brigade, 1981, about the United States at war with global terrorism.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fair

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