S is for Space Thriller

S is for Space ThrillerNew York: Doubleday, 1966 First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. The slightest trace of offsetting to the first free endpaper, otherwise a fine copy. In a very nearly fine, unclipped dust jacket just with the slightest chipping to the edges and a small closed tear between the rear panel and the spine. A bright, beautiful copy.

in which he experimented with writing a play in the format of a novel

Complete with the colored frontispiece from a sketch by Humboldt

second printing

Inscribed by the author on the title page: “A Tom / affettuosamente / Umberto

London: Bloomsbury

Widmark starred in the novel’s film adaptation the following year

” A rare surviving record of Witherspoon’s formative work as president and head professor of Princeton University

with no additional publications mentioned on the copyright page

Some foxing to the the pastedowns and endpapers

The dust jacket spine very slightly sunned

but otherwise a solid and essentially intact volume

In a fine dust jacket