King of Argent

by John T. Phillifent
Cover by Frank Kelly Freas (signed)

DAW Books First Edition

Description: Mass market paperback book published by DAW Books in 1973. The copyright page states 'First Printing, March 1973' and then lists printings one through ten, making this a first printing (someone apparently misunderstood what a printing status bar was supposed to look like). Signed by the cover artist on the title page without inscription or personalization. This author also wrote as John Rackham.

From the Back Cover: They told John Lampart that he would have to have his entire bodily metabolism altered to survive on Argent.

Because that unknown planet was his most valuable find, he agreed.

He landed on Argent, golden-skinned and different. He had expected to find himself on a barren world, destined for two years of hard work. But Argent had life of its own of a different kind, weird, wild and endlessly challenging.

Not the least challenge to him was the discovery that his Earth bosses regarded him as expendable - his work would end in his death while they got rich.

King of Argent is a novel of a man against a fantastically strange planet - and of the girl who dared to intervene.

Condition: Binding - very good, bottom of spine a little bumped, minor edgewear, this copy shows signs of having stuck to other books - white specks on the front where cover was listed and dark specks on the back where cover was taken from another book, corners slightly bumped, front cover hinge crease along the spine, no spine reading creases, insides of cover browning very very slightly, pages slightly tanned. Dust jacket - none, as issued.

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