THE WORLD OF A.

by Van Vogt

$450 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition · Signed

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed on the title page by van Vogt. A space-operatic mystery story in its author's best vein, with a hero who seemingly can die and be reborn endlessly thanks to his 'non-Aristotelian' mental powers . It's dreadful old garbage by any reasonable critical standard, and yet it has a dreamlike conviction which has endeared it to generations of readers. The

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