NEEDLE

by Hal Clement

$50 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1950. Early printing of Clement's story of a teen who unknowingly hosts a parasitic alien life-form, issued as part of Doubleday's Young Moderns series following the publisher's first edition. Very good in very good minus jacket. Item #49379

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