NEEDLE

by Hal Clement, Harry Clement Stubbs

$250 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first book. An early example of a theme that became popular in the 1950s: the apparently normal human being next to you might be a human body highjacked by an alien intelligence. In this story, two such 'highjackers' arrive on earth, one a detective, the other his quarry, who is planning monstrous crimes. They soon take over human

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