FLIGHT INTO YESTERDAY.
New York: Bouregy & Curl, Inc., [1953]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Inscribed by Harness (to a collector) on the front free end paper. The author's first book. A classic modern SF novel, better known under its later alternate title THE PARADOX MEN. "Alar the Thief fights the twenty-second-century Chancellor of America Imperial. An intricate and heartening tale of time paradoxes, written in grand pulp style." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 274. "Authoritarian dystopia" - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 246. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-189. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 10. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1641-44]. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket, light wear to the corner tips and spine ends, shallow loss at head of spine panel, 12 mm closed tear to upper front panel, tiny nick to lower front panel, slight color fade to spine panel. Uncommon signed. (25934). Item #25934
Price: $250.00