Brand/Publisher: Ballantine Books mass-market paperback titled Star Trek Log Two by Alan Dean Foster, adapted from the animated television series created by Gene Roddenberry and featuring the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise.
Format and series: English-language Star Trek tie-in paperback, Ballantine catalog number 24184, first edition and first printing (September 1974), part of the Star Trek Log series of short story adaptations from the animated TV show.
Contents: three complete episode adaptations, "The Survivor," "The Lorelei Signal," and "The Infinite Vulcan," presenting self-contained missions in which Carter Winston returns to the Enterprise, a mysterious signal lures the crew toward danger, and Spock faces abduction and an uncertain future on the planet Phylos.
Design: front cover combines a white upper field with bold black and orange title lettering over a color illustration of an alien cityscape and the Enterprise flying above, with a circular "First Time in Print" badge; spine prints the series title and author name; the back cover lists story descriptions and a thumbnail image of Star Trek Log One.
Publication details: copyright 1974 by Paramount Pictures Corp.; SBN 345-24184-3-095; first printing noted as September 1974; cover art supplied by Filmation Associates; printed in the United States of America by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, with simultaneous Canadian edition from Ballantine Books, Ltd., Toronto.
Genre and audience: vintage 1970s science fiction and media tie-in fiction, collecting short story adaptations of Star Trek animated television episodes for young adult and adult readers interested in classic Star Trek, space exploration adventures, and film/TV novelizations.
Condition: Front color-illustrated card cover shows light surface rubbing, a few small age spots, and mild edge and corner wear, most noticeable at the lower corners. Back cover displays overall age toning with scattered tiny dark specks and faint handling marks near the margins. Spine is straight with slight surface rubbing at the ends and remains free of reading creases. Page-block edges are uniformly tanned from age with a few small foxing spots. Interior pages examined are evenly toned but securely bound, legible, and clean with no writing, underlining, or highlighting. Listing includes the 1974 Ballantine mass-market paperback novel only; no dust jacket or supplemental materials are present.