The Secret of Saturn's Rings
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1954. First edition, first printing. Publisher's dark blue cloth, in Alex Schomburg dust jacket ($2.00), illustrated endpapers. Light rubbing extremities, faint smudge to front board, overall near fine in very good lightly edge worn dust jacket, with some shallow chipping to corners, colors still very bright. Item #222228
The first full-length novel by Donald A. Wollheim—already a major editor and anthologist by the early 1950s—The Secret of Saturn’s Rings inaugurated his brief but memorable tenure with the Winston juvenile science fiction line, published between 1952 and 1961. Issued in the series’ signature format—silver-stamped cloth, pictorial dust jacket by Alex Schomburg, and publisher’s thematic endpapers—this title marked Wollheim’s transition from short fiction and editorial work to authored novels, preceding later pseudonymous output as “David Grinnell.” A foundational entry for both author and imprint.
Price: $150.00