Stowaway Mushroom Planet Cameron 1950s Childrens Sci Fi Space Classic HC DJ 21pr

by Eleanor Cameron

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.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron Published by Atlantic, Little Brown, Boston, circa 1972 (1956 copyright). 21st printing. Very good hardcover in good dust jacket with slight overprint error to illustration. Tight binding, solid spine, soiling to boards and endpapers with some dampstaining to front endpaper and dustjacket, dj in archival mylar wrapper, clean unmarked text. 8vo, illustrated in black and white by Robert Henneberger, 226 pages. The second adventure in Cameron's beloved Mushroom Planet series follows David and Chuck on their return voyage to Basidium, the tiny habitable moon orbiting 50,000 miles from Earth, where they discover an unexpected stowaway—Theo Bass, the would-be scientist cousin of their mysterious mentor Tyco Bass. Published in 1956, two years after the runaway success of The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, Cameron's series proved enormously popular, spawning four sequels and two short stories over the following thirteen years, becoming a touchstone for children captivated by space travel during the dawn of the Space Age. What makes these books enduringly beloved is Cameron's unique blending of fantasy and science, following in the tradition of Hugh Lofting while combining the wonder of fairy tales with the ideas of British astronomer Sir James Jeans. Like other 1950s novels for children, this story plays with the idea of space travel that fascinated

• Publisher: Atlantic, Little Brown, Boston
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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