Helping his father on an archeological expedition in the Peruvian Andes, Burl Denning looks forward to studying engineering when he enters college in the fall. The expedition's study of Inca ruins is interrupted by the arrival of a small guided missile from California. Inside the missile they find a message informing them that over the past several days the sun's light has dimmed all over the world, threatening the onset of a new ice age, and that the source of the dimming has been traced to a point seven miles from their ...
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Helping his father on an archeological expedition in the Peruvian Andes, Burl Denning looks forward to studying engineering when he enters college in the fall. The expedition's study of Inca ruins is interrupted by the arrival of a small guided missile from California. Inside the missile they find a message informing them that over the past several days the sun's light has dimmed all over the world, threatening the onset of a new ice age, and that the source of the dimming has been traced to a point seven miles from their camp. Burl and his father hike to the location they were given and come to a dome surrounded by a wall. Inside the dome they find alien machinery that will not respond to their manipulations of the controls. Burl tries to pick up a small sphere and it blasts him with what feels like an electric shock. He then discovers that the controls will respond to him, so he shuts down the installation and sees immediately that the sunlight outside the dome has returned to normal. Picked up by the military and taken to California, the Dennings are told that astronomers have detected a dimming of sunlight on Mercury and Mars and suspect it's occurring on the other planets as well. Worse, calculations show that if the Sun-stealers' program continues, the sun will blow up as a nova in two to three years. Fortunately the means to solve the problem stands readily at hand for those who dare to use it - a giant spaceship propelled by an experimental antigravity drive. A classical science fiction novel sure to leave the reader rivited!
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Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible-Acceptable. Book Good. No dust jacket. Shelf worn. Shelf cocked. Rubbed and scuffed on cover. Corners bumped and bowed. Toned on page edges. Page corners bumped. (science fiction, saturn, space)
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Philadelphia, The John C. Winston Company, 1954, hardcover, 207 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Very Good in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light wear to board edges. Colorful price-clipped dustjacket, sticker mark to front flap, small edge chips at corners, head & heel of spine, and bottom edge of front panel, a bit of color shift to front panel titles, in new Brodart sleeve. Illustrated endpapers.
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Very Good- in Good jacket. 8vo, The John C Winston Company, 1959 First Edition, blue cloth hardcover with dust jacket, DJ is price clipped, rubbed and edge worn with small chips, edges lightly soiled, owner's gift dedication, 201 pages.
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Philadelphia, The John C. Winston Company, 1954, hardcover, 207 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Very Good+ in Fair dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light wear to board edges, slight dish to rear board. Exceptionally brightly-colored dustjacket price clipped, small edge chips at corners and head & heel of spine, large chips to front and rear panels near head of spine in new Brodart sleeve. Illustrated endpapers.
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Philadelphia, The John C. Winston Company, 1959, hardcover, 201 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Good+ in Very Good dustjacket. Firmly bound and clean with no markings, slight spine lean, light wear to board edges, spots to boards. Brightly-colored first state dustjacket with thirty-one titles on the rear panel, unclipped and bearing original price, tiny chips to spine-ends and corners, short, closed edge tear to top of front panel, in new Brodart sleeve. A high school senior joins an Air Force expedition attempting the first circumnavigation of the solar system to determine the cause of the sudden dimming of light and drop in temperature around the world.
