baseball_3000 - Softcover

Baseball 3000

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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover. Zustand: Very Fine condition. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Fine dust jacket. Clark, Bradley (jacket art) (illustrator). First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Elsevier / Nelson Books, 1981. Very Fine condition in bright, shiny Very Fine Dust Jacket (protected by a removable Brodart sleeve). Fresh and crisp, apparently never read. A beautiful copy of a book tough-to-find in Very Fine collectible condition. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped ($12.50). No chips, tears, scuffs, creases, or rubbing. Not a book club edition. No remainder mark. No owner's name or bookplate. "First edition" is so stated, with complete number row (10 987654321) on copyright page. Scarce anthology of 11 science fiction stories on baseball: THE CELEBRATED NO-HIT INNING (by Frederick Pohl); THE WORD OF BABE RUTH (by Paul Gallico); THE MIGHTY CASEY (by Rod Serling); THE HEAVENLY WORLD SERIES (by Frank O'Rourke); THE EINSTEIN INSHOOT (by Nelson Bond); STAR SLUGGER (by William Morrison); HALF PAST ALLIGATOR (by Donald Colvin); ON ACCOUNT OF DARKNESS (by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini); etc. Great wrap-around Dust Jacket illustration by Bradley Clark features aliens, and a robot playing baseball. One of the aliens has three sets of arms and a baseball glove on each of three hands. Original blue boards. From the Dust Jacket: "What is the effect of baseball on alien beings new to the game? How will the game change when human-shaped machines become capable of playing it? Is it fair play for an outfielder to levitate hundreds of feet into the air to catch the ball? Fascinating problems are explored in eleven science-fiction stories about America's most popular sport. here are baseball tales that will amuse, provoke, and enlighten. [This] unusual anthology will take baseball fans and lovers of science fiction and fantasy far out to some thrilling ball games." McCue, p. 73. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Fine condition/Very Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Clark, Bradley (jacket art). 8vo. (vi), 210pp. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001409

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