TIPTREE (James Jr.) & [BRADLEY SHELDON (Alice)].
Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home.
First UK, and first hardcover edition. 8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in black, dust jacket. London, Eyre Methuen, 1975.
First UK, and first hardcover edition. 8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in black, dust jacket. London, Eyre Methuen, 1975.
A collection of short stories with an introduction by Harry Harrison. James Tiptree Jr. was the pen name of Alice Bradley Sheldon, it was not widely known that "Tiptree" was a woman until 1977. This was her first book to be published, originally in an Ace books paperback edition in 1973.
A near fine copy, edges of jacket very lightly rubbed.