Buy this book on-line STURGEON,THEODORE: : The Cosmic RapeUSA,NY.DELL,1958. ISBN No ISBN.
US,12mo p/back original,1st edn.[Paperback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/
title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but p/back originals are published prior to any other book format.Originally a shorter version (novelette) of this story appeared in 'Galaxy Science Fiction' magazine under the title 'To Marry Medusa' Copyright,
1958,Galaxy Publishing Corp.Sturgeon rewrote and expanded this philosophical novelette for it's paperback format.This edition is a DELL 1st edn p/back with stated First printing,August,1958 and cover price 35c.] VG+.No owner inscrptn,
but an exchange-bookshop's seller's black ink shop stamp to half-title precis'd page.Bright,crisp,clean,vibrant colour pictorial artwork cover by Richard Powers with some slight discolouring to white/ cream background; with some negligible shelf-wear and some inevitable,but minimal creasing to the spine/backstrip - but no cracking - and generally sharp-cornered covers - top,front corner excepted,with a small crease.Bookseller's(?) inked capital initials SP and pre-decimal price (1/-) to front cover.Top+fore-edges coloured green; top edge with a black ink date stamp otherwise generally clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound without any cracking i.e. pages completely glued to spine and in situ without any loose/ detached pages.Book has obviously been carefully read and without any intentional reading nor accidental dog-ear creases,to pages' corners.US,12mo p/b 1st edn thus,5- 160pp [paginated] includes 30 chapters; plus [unpaginated] precis to half-title page,and title page.
FROM THE STARS,FROM THE COSMOS,IT CAME . . . the Medusa,the galactic man of war,the hive-minded creature that was a billion creatures.It dropped its wrinkled spore into one man on earth,through him expecting to conquer mankind . . . to absorb into itself the strangely separate and stubborn creatures that called themselves men. . .
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