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SIMAK**, CLIFFORD D[onald]: : THE VISITORS

LONDON.SIDGWICK & JACKSON LIMITED,1981.

ISBN 0283987189.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Ian Craig, illustrated front panel with red and white letters to same+spine; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges of both inner flaps of dw/dj with a narrow darkened strip along its edges.Top+ fore-edges generally bright and clean with no foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - near pristine - and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - could appear unread,apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean and unblemished,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain navy blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 1-282pp [paginated] includes 57 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, and to the rear a note on the author. It looked like a big black box - perhaps fifty feet high,two hundred long.And it has settled squarely on forestry student Jerry Conklin's car. The local townspeople were the first to see it,and one of them was the first and only human to shoot at it.He paid for his rashness with instant death. Within hours the press,the government and the public knew something strange has happened and were beginning to face the incredible possibility that the black box was something from outer space.A machine? An intelligent being? There was no way to know. But Jerry Conklin knew.The visitor had scooped him up,held inside itself for hours,then let him go - and Jerry had sensed its thoughts and feelings.He knew the visitor was a living,intelligent creature. Then more of the giant black boxes descended to Earth,almost all in the United States.And they began eating trees. . . . and reproducing.The visitors seemed harmless if left alone,but their powers of defence,and their very existence, threatened world stability.America's allies,and its enemies,demanded more information. But there was none. . . . Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. UK,buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if item is offered P+p free. [UK only.] ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US standard AIR postage from UK to US can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. 1/2 to 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving long before the quoted 42 days - but not always.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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