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NEEDLE.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Signed on the title page as Clement and Stubbs. Author's first book. An alien cop takes over the body of a human. "An adequately exciting tale of possession from outer space, by a writer who is well versed in the hard sciences. Clement's first novel, it introduced the word "symbiote," use ever since by SF writers..." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 251. Anatomy of Wonder 3-110.
CYCLE OF FIRE.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1957]. Small octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Book 200. "The human survivor of a spaceship crash on a planet which experiences extremes of cold and heat is helped by one of the natives. The strong point of the book is the explanation of the biology and evolution of these alien creatures" - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 84. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-258.
ICEWORLD.
[New York]: Gnome Press, Inc., [1953]. Octavo, jacket art by Ric Binkley, boards. First edition. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-259.
MISSION OF GRAVITY.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page by Stubbs as "Hal Clement" and Harry C. Stubbs. "At the behest of human space-farers, flat centipede-like creatures set out on a heroic mission across the surface of the heavy planet Mesklin. Scrupulously thought out, this is one of the best-loved examples of hard SF." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 241. Runner-up for the 1955 International Fantasy Award. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-260. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 15. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1424-28.
SMALL CHANGES.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects nine stories.