CLEMENT, HAL (HARRY CLEMENT STUBBS) — Left of Africa

New Orleans, La: The Aurian Society Press, 1976. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Dany Frolich. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The endpapers have some light spots of foxing. The top edge of the text block has toning and foxing, and the foredge of the text block has foxing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but there is one small chip to the top rear spine joint. "From 1949 to 1953, Clement's first three novels were two-, three-, and four-part Astounding serials under Campbell: Needle (Doubleday, 1950) , Iceworld (Gnome Press, 1953) , and Mission of Gravity (1954) , his best-known novel, published by Doubleday's Science Fiction Book Club (established 1953). The latter novel features a land and sea expedition across the superjovian planet Mesklin to recover a stranded scientific probe. The natives of Mesklin are centipede-like intelligent beings about 50 centimeters long. Various episodes hinge on the fact that Mesklin's fast rotational speed causes it to be considerably deformed from the spherical, with effective surface gravity that varies from approximately 3 gn at the equator to approximately 700 gn at the poles. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .