Alternative Worlds: The Illustrated History of Science Fiction. With an Introduction by Isaac Asimov.
[1975] · Englewood Cliffs, NJ
by Gunn, James.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., [1975]. Quarto, black & blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and illus. to upper cover, 256 pp. Very Good, with lightly rubbed edges and former owner signature, in an edgeworn dust jacket with a hairline tear. From jacket: One of the best-known writers in the field traces speculative writing throughout man’s written history, from Homer down to Heinlein. Filled with excepts from the seminal works and full-color reporductions of the well-remembered art, this is a mental feast and a visual orgy for all science fiction fans, for for anyone who remembers those wonderful stories of Verne and Wells and Asimove and Clarke and Sturgeon and Bradbury and.... (Inventory #: 17762scs)