RORK!

by Avram Davidson

$150 · Offered by L. W. Currey

London: Rapp & Whiting, 1968 . Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. A government agent from Old Earth is sent to Pia 2, a remote frontier planet, to investigate the drop in the harvest of redwing, a plant used throughout the Galaxy as a medical fixative that grows only on Pia 2. Rorks are rather nasty spider-like creatures that prey on the native inhabitants of the planet -- who are the

• Binding: Hardcover

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