Vanguard From Alpha/Changling Worlds

by Ed Emshwiller (illustrator)

Acceptable to Good condition. Strong spine with small repair. Bright clean cover has light shelf and edge wear. Text is perfect but toning. Good reading copy. Same day shipping first class.

Paperback

Published January 1, 1959

About the author

From 1951 to 1979, while living in Levittown, New York, Emshwiller ("Emsh") created covers and interior illustrations for dozens of science fiction paperbacks and magazines, notably Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.[3] He debuted in the pulp magazines with about 50 interior illustrations and four cover paintings for the May to December 1951 issues of Galaxy, a monthly edited by H. L. Gold. In that year or 1952 he also did his first book cover for the U.S. paperback edition of Odd John (Galaxy Publishing Corp.) Because he experimented with a diversity of techniques, there is no typical Emsh cover. His painterly treatment for the August 1951 cover of Galaxy Science Fiction prefigures later work by Leo and Diane Dillon.