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Welcome to Mars!
by Blish, James
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0722117027
- ISBN 13
- 9780722117026
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1979 (1978)* Publisher: Sphere Science Fiction.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Slight creases to front cover. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine slight wear to edges of spine. Seems lightly-used. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, minimal age to all edges, remainder mark to top and bottom edges. VG+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 156 pp. text. iv pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- In Welcome to Mars, a boy named Dolph discovers that scientists and physicists have been tackling the problems of space travel the wrong way and discovers how to work gravity instead of against it in these endeavors. The solution is so simple that Dolph is able to solve it within his parent?s garage and builds himself his own space ship to travel to Mars with the help of his girlfriend. However, when Dolph gets to Mars he discovers that he is stranded on the planet himself and must rely on his knowledge/hands-on-skills in order to survive.* This is a VG reprint copy with minimal age & shelf wear.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3576
- Title
- Welcome to Mars!
- Author
- Blish, James
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn. Thus, Reprint.
- ISBN 10
- 0722117027
- ISBN 13
- 9780722117026
- Publisher
- Sphere
- Place of Publication
- London UK 160
- Date Published
- 1979-01-01
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- Spine
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