The Earth Is Near

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Overview:

Title: The Earth Is Near
Author: Ludek Pesek
Year: 1976
Publisher: Dell Laurel-Leaf
Price: $1.25
Pages: 192
Binding: Paperback
Type: Novel
Title Reference: The Earth Is Near
Notes:
2nd printing. Also appears in a box set of six sample Dell paperbacks titled Tesseract 1 (Dell 7673). The mission patch on the space-suited figure on the cover has Charles Lilly on it