Takeoff

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Overview:

Title: Takeoff
Author: C. M. Kornbluth
Year: 1952
Publisher: Doubleday
Price: $2.75
Pages: 218
Binding: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Title Reference: Takeoff
Notes:
"First Edition" on copyright page [as noted by Currey] Month from copyright page of the Pennant paperback "Price, $2.75" and "Jacket Design by Arthur Shilstone" on front flap [price and artist as noted by Tuck]. Above price on front flap is "T." No 'gutter code' (since published before mid-1958.) Back of dust jacket has "Science fiction from Doubleday" and list of 15 titles, the most recent of which is Heinlein's 1952 anthology "Tomorrow, The Stars".