1953 Cover Astounding Science Fiction Art Richard Van Dongen Hal Clement YSFC3 GEBRAND Commander U

Commander U

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This is an original 1925 halftone print of a family from the Wakamba tribe outside of their huts in Kenya

This is an original 1909 black and white halftone print of a photograph of the ancient Greek Athenian Treasury building at the archeology site in Delphi

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1953 Cover Astounding Science Fiction Art Richard Van Dongen Hal Clement YSFC3 GEBRAND Commander UPlease note that this is a cover only! This is an original color cover for Astounding Science Fiction, April, 1953 that featured an artistic imagining of a crew of human space explorers on the planet Mesklin in author Hal Clement's serialized novel entitled, Mission of Gravity. Despite being well written, literary critics called the novel "a bit of a downer" and stated that it felt "like a forced read" even with its "weighty" plot. CONDITION This 59+