Eric Frank Russell — Next of Kin

London, Dennis Dobson, 1967. Cloth. This uncommon second impression of Eric Frank Russell's comic science fiction novel about a military misfit, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The second impression of the work. A version of the work was originally published in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction in 1956 under the title 'Plus X' before it was then first published in extended form in Great Britain in 1959.With the original unclipped dust wrapper.Uncommon.Eric Frank Russell was a twentieth-century British science fiction writer and the author of several tales that appeared in American pulp magazines such as Astounding Science Fiction and Weird Tales. His novel Next of Kin follows a military misfit who wages psychological warfare against an alien race. Its plot takes inspiration from the army officer E. H. Jones' account of his escape from the Yozgad prisoner of war camp in Turkey during the First World War. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally, very excellent with just slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Wrapper is attractive with marginal sunning and toning to the spine, a few light handling marks, and a touch of edgewear, including a few fractional chips chips to the rear flyleaf. A few fractional marks to the recto of the front free endpaper and verso of the rear free endpaper resulting from some small tape pieces previously used to secure the dust wrapper's Brodart sleeve. Internally, firmly bound with pages that are a trifle age toned, however generally bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.