No signatures. Some fading to boards. Slight spine lean. Rubbing and marking to dust wrapper. Rubbing to ends of dust wrapper spine. 1/2" tear at head of dust wrapper rear spine joint. 1/4" at head of front spine joint. 1/2" tear at tail of dust wrapper rear spine joint. 1 1/4" tear at head of front fold of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 190 pages. Black papered boards. Page dimensions: 197mm x 125mm. "Now it can be told that, nearly thirty years before the Russians startled the world with their first Sputnik, a rocket ship bearing two men set out for Mars. Nothing was heard of them thereafter. Professor Ezra Rollins, who, with his colleagues, and with the quiet assistance of the fabulously wealthy and world-famous Dana Gleason, had constructed the ship, considered himself a murderer." - from the dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo