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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. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder 3-110]. Upper corner tips bruised, a nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with light wear to the corner tips and head of the spine pane, some darkening to the spine panel. (31255). Item #31255
Price: $250.00