Davy

New York: St. Martin's Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1964. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is a thin strip of toning / darkening to the very top edge of the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. There is an ink stamp name and address from the literary agent Robert P. Mills on the front endpaper. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright - there is some light fading to the red letters on the spine of the dust jacket and a thin scratch to the front flap joint edge. There is also a thin red strip of faded discoloration on the bottom spine. "Over the next 20 years he wrote numerous stories for the pulp detective and mystery magazines, always under pseudonyms. He also spent three years (1939–1942) farming in rural Maine, and three years (1942–1945) doing his World War II military service in the Pacific with the U. S. Army Medical Corps. It was not until the early 1950s that Edgar "suddenly appeared" within the science fiction and mystery fields, publishing a string of high-quality, high-profile stories under his own name in prominent magazines like Galaxy Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. His work helped to firmly establish a new "humanist" school of science fiction, and inspired a subsequent generation of writers, including Peter S. Beagle and Ursula K. Le Guin, who has credited Pangborn and Theodore Sturgeon with convincing her that it was possible to write worthwhile, humanly emotional stories within science fiction and fantasy. " (from Wikipedia) .