THE STAR KINGS

by Edmond Hamilton

$75 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

New York: Frederick Fell, Inc., 1949 . Octavo, cloth. First edition. A space epic set in the far future that ranks a close second to THE HAUNTED STARS 1960 , his best novel. One of the classic American space operas: a retelling of Anthony Hope's THE PRISONER OF ZENDA 1894 in futuristic, galaxy-spanning fashion. Hamilton's first novel in book form, though he had written many magazine novellas and serials over a twenty

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