The Undying Fire

by Fletcher Pratt
Cover by Richard Powers

Ballantine Books First Edition
Hardback Edition

Description: Hardback book published by Ballantine Books in 1953. The page facing the title page states 'This is an original novel - not a reprint'. Published in both hardback and paperback at the same time as Ballantine did back then, this is the hardback version of the first edition. Hardback print runs were usually small.

From the front flap: The ruthless forces of the Reformers had won the first round. They had succeeded in getting Thorwald Paulsson, star space-pilot, suspended from the Space Command on a phony charge of dereliction of duty.

The Captain Paulsson made his move. It took a good deal of courage but the stakes were high. Only a few days after his trial he set out in the space-ship for a distant planet to wrest from its inhabitants the closely guarded secret of the neptunium mines. Only by bringing off this coup could he even the score and have himself re-instated. But between him and his goal lay space pirates, the unpredictability of his crew, and the hazards of hostile planets.

In a book filled with the reach and wonder of the space world, Fletcher Pratt has written the odyssey of a new Jason in quest of the future equivalent of the Golden Fleece.

Condition: Binding - good, top and bottom of spine bumped, moderate edgewear, pace edges a bit soiled and the side and bottom page edges are poorly trimmed. Dust Jacket - good, moderate edgewear and wrinkling, minor rubbing and soiling, not price clipped, in dust jacket protector.

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