OUT OF THIS WORLD

by Murray Leinster, William Fitzgerald Jenkins

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: Avalon Books, 1958 . Octavo, cloth. First edition. Fix-up novel collecting the first three stories featuring Bud Gregory, a lazy, unschooled hillbilly genius with an intuitive comprehension of physics who builds crude devices only he can operate that perform tasks present-day science considers impossible. One of his inventions is a death-ray that destroys the space fleet of aliens invading Earth. A fine copy in

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