ALTERNATE WORLDS: THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION

by James Gunn

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Englewood Cliffs, N. J. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1975 . Large octavo, pp. 1-6 7-11 12 13-256, profusely illustrated in color and black and white, cloth. First edition. Certainly the most ambitious illustrated historical survey of the SF genre up to its time. Gunn, award-winning SF author and respected literary scholar, devoted many years to collecting the often rare photographs that compliment the highly readable text.

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