GALLUN, RAYMOND Z. — The Planet Strippers

New York, NY: Pyramid Books, 1961. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB. Illustrated by John Schoenherr. Cover Art; This is a mass market paperback book. Pyramid book number G658 with a price of .35 cents. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping and rubbing. There is a bit of beginning ground-in dirt to the front book cover. The text pages are clean and bright, though there is some lightish generalized toning throughout. "Gallun wrote his first two stories, "The Space Dwellers" and "The Crystal Ray" (both published in 1929) , at age 16. He was among the stalwart group of early sci-fi pulp writers who popularized the genre. He sold many popular stories to pulp magazines in the 1930s. "Old Faithful" (1934) was his first noted story. "The Gentle Brain" was published in "Science Fiction Quarterly" under the pseudonym Arthur Allport. His first book, People Minus X, was published in 1957 by Simon & Schuster, followed by The Planet Strappers in 1961 (Pyramid). The Ballantine collection issued in 1978, The Best of Raymond Z. Gallun, provides a selection of his early work. Gallun was honored with the I-CON Lifetime Achievement Award in 1985 at I-CON IV; " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .