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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj - believed an export copy,which precedes trade 1st edn - as there is no publisher's price to corner.Gollancz black+yellow Sci-Fi dw/dj with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present,though the title to spine/
backstrip is slightly sunned/faded,darker
colours unaffected.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near
pristine.Unblemished,plain blue paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-237pp includes title+half-title pages,contents list and 17 chapters.
In 'Beyond the Blue Event Horizon',the sequel to 'Gateway' - the Hugo,Nebula & John W.Campbell Memorials award winning novel - the alien mysteries of the Heechee are slowly revealed.In a novel that convincingly portrays the power of human curiosity and the strengths and failings of human emotion.Frederik Pohl has once again asserted his mastery of the science fiction genre,and presented his readers with a breathtaking vista of the alien.2nd book in the trilogy: Heechee Rendevous (then 1980) was due for publication in 1984 and subsequently was published.
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - generally believed to be export copies,issued before UK trade issues.Bright crisp,clean,glossy. instantly recognizable yellow Gollancz dw/dj with black,grey and blue-green (title) letters to front,spine with faded(?) title letters,though author's name is in vibrant black letters,as opposed to grey,for same on the front - so probably not sunned(?) at all?,rear panel plain yellow.Dw/dj with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing - no nicks,tears or splits present,though some inevitable,but minimal,superficial scoring/indents to both panels - without any penetration nor affecting boards beneath.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - would appear unread,apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean and unblemished,sharp-cornered.publisher's original RAF blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine /backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-327pp [paginated] includes 17 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and contents list/table and 2pp blanks at rear.
The sequel to 'Gateway' and the second of Frederik Pohl's 'Heechee' sequence of novels,in which the alien mysteries of the Heechee are slowly revealed.The prequel won the HUGO,NEBULA & John W. Campbell Memorial Awards.
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