This book collects and blends five previously published stories about Gerry Carlyle, a worldwide celebrity who travels to different planets collecting alien animals for the Interplanetary Zoo in London. Arthur K. Barnes (1911-1969) was an American science fiction author. Barnes wrote mostly for pulp magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. Barnes was most noted for his vivid and believable portrayals of alien life. As such, he is compared to Stanley G. Weinbaum, though he is not considered as good a writer. Before Barnes (and ...
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This book collects and blends five previously published stories about Gerry Carlyle, a worldwide celebrity who travels to different planets collecting alien animals for the Interplanetary Zoo in London. Arthur K. Barnes (1911-1969) was an American science fiction author. Barnes wrote mostly for pulp magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. Barnes was most noted for his vivid and believable portrayals of alien life. As such, he is compared to Stanley G. Weinbaum, though he is not considered as good a writer. Before Barnes (and Weinbaum), SF writers usually portrayed aliens as earth-like monsters, with little originality. Barnes wrote a series of stories about "interplanetary hunters" Tommy Strike and Gerry Carlyle, collected in the books, Interplanetary Hunter (1956) and Interplanetary Huntress (1956).
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Very Good in Good jacket. First edition. Very good or better in good dustwrapper. Hardcover lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, pages browned at edges. Dustwrapper rubbed and chipped at spine ends and corners, soiled and worn, tape repair at top front of spine, price clipped. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo., 231pp. Beautiful Stated First Edition of this collection of stories originally published in the pulps. Bound in gray cloth with titles in red on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Pages toning as is common with this title. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($3.00), has a short, almost invisible closed tear on the rear bottom edge. Still fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or toning. A sharp collectable copy.
