Mission to the Stars

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Overview:

Title: Mission to the Stars
Author: A. E. van Vogt
Year: 1955
Publisher: Berkley Books
Price: $0.25
Pages: 126
Binding: Paperback
Type: Novel
Title Reference: Mission to the Stars
Notes:
• "Berkley Edition, December, 1955"
• Printing not stated, no number line
• "This book is based upon previously published stories By A. E. van Vogt: "Concealment" and "The Storm," copyright © 1943, by Street and Smith Publications, Inc., and "The Mixed Men," copyright © 1945, by Street and Smith Publications, Inc." stated on the copyright page.
• Clute/Nicholls states this edition is 'cut' from the '52 first edition
• US Edition, Canadian one has different price
• The cover is credited to Powers on the copyright page
• This first printing is different from the second printing in the ads in the back [first has an ad for Groff Conklin's Possible Worlds of SF issued by Berkley in July 1955] and that the second printing does not have the letters ANC above the price on the cover, otherwise the two are identical.