Moore, Patrick ~ Wanderer In Space

First UK Printing : Burke Publishing Co. Ltd., London : 1961

The First UK Printing published by Burke Publishing Co. Ltd., London in 1961. 8vo., burgundy boards lettered in yellow to backstrip; complete in the vibrant illustrative wrapper by ‘Hardy’ (8s 6d net), featuring two astronomers in front of a strange red asteroid; The BOOK a fresh, bright copy, lightly spotted to the fore-edge and some mild offsetting to the blank end-papers ; free from inscriptions ; in the near Fine WRAPPER which is ever so slightly and evenly toned to the lower panel and flaps; some very minor rubbing to spine ends, light vertical creasing; a lovely example. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Patrick Moore presented the BBC television series The Sky at Night from its initiation in April 1957 until his death in 2012, missing just one episode during that time due to illness. He therefore became a household name in the field of popular astronomy, but was also responsible for over 100 children’s science fiction novels, mostly written at the beginning of his career, and starting with the short Grenfell and Wright series, which began in 1952. Wanderer in Space was written almost ten years later, when Moore was somewhat of a seasoned writer within the genre. In this example, the protagonists Rex Redmayne and Robin North set off to photograph ‘Percy’ - a mysterious object approaching from outer space.

BINDING: Hardcover
CONDITION: Near Fine
JACKET: Near Fine