Beyond the Barrier
by Damon Knight (signed bookplate)
Doubleday First Edition
Description: Hardback book published by Doubleday and Company in 1964. The copyright page states 'First Edition', making this a first printing. Bookplate signed by the author without inscription or personalization, laid in.
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From the front flap: Gordon Naismith was a physics professor at a large California university. The year was 1980, and by means of the university's duplicator he could personally teach in nine different classrooms simultaneously. Naismith was an average man in all but two respects: the reflexes were extraordinarily quick, and four years before in a plane crash he had lost all memory of his earlier life. Neither difference seemed important until one day a very unusual student in one of his classes asked a disturbing, extracurricular questions:
"Professor, what ia a zug?"
The question triggered a series of violent incidents, and soon Naismith himself, as well as the police, were beginning to wonder if the duplicator had reproduced him a tenth time.
The answer lay ten thousand years in the future.
Condition: Binding - very good, cloth is damp stained (but book pages show no sign of having been wet), cloth a little spotted and soiled, slight ding to the board edge, pages a little tanned, page edges a bit soiled and stained. Dust jacket - very good, spine sun faded, light sun fading along the top edge, minor soiling, moderate edgewear and wrinkling, top to bottom crease on the front cover and front flap, not price clipped, in dust jacket protector.
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