Daybreak, 2250 A.D. /
Two centuries after an atomic war on earth, a silver-haired mutant sets out on a dangerous search for a lost city of the ruined civilization.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Ace Books,
[1961]
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| Edition: | [First mass market paperback separate edition] |
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| Summary: | Two centuries after an atomic war on earth, a silver-haired mutant sets out on a dangerous search for a lost city of the ruined civilization. |
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| Item Description: | "D-534"--Page 1, cover of 1961 printing. "F-323"--Page 1, cover of 1965 printing. "D-534"--Page 1, cover of 1968 printing. "13991"--Page 1, cover of 1969 printing. "Original title: Star man's son." "Complete and unabridged novel. Original title: Star Man's Son."--Page 1, cover. Publication dates from ISFDB, publication records #9294, #9295, #9296, #172581. First published by Ace Books in 1954 in series Ace Double, with Beyond Earth's Gates by by Lewis Padgett (alias of Henry Kuttner) and C. L. Moore. "An Ace Book, by arrangement with Harcourt, Brace and Co., Inc."--Title page verso. "When the novel was reissued in paperback, by Ace Books in 1954, it was retitled Daybreak -- 2250 A.D."--Inserted explanatory card, facsimile reprint of Star man's son by The First Edition Library, 1980. Cover artist not credited (same anonymous cover artist for all Ace publications of the novel in 60s-70s). "... the cover of the Ace edition originally appeared with this unfortunately-thus-far-anonymously-created illustration in 1961..."--Literary art and illustration website. One of the Cushing Library/Science Fiction copies received as part of Andre Norton’s Collection of Her Own Works, as donated by Vic Horadam and is signed by the author. One of the Cushing Library/Science Fiction copies donated by the Ballard and Mayhar families |
| Physical Description: | 182 pages ; 17 cm |