Description
Author: James Blish (Based on the television series created by Gene Roddenberry)
Publisher: Bantam Books (S7364)
Year: 1972
Edition: 5th Printing
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Cover Artist: Eddie Jones
Condition: Very Good (Structurally Sharp Specimen with Vintage Provenance)
Publisher: Bantam Books (S7364)
Year: 1972
Edition: 5th Printing
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Cover Artist: Eddie Jones
Condition: Very Good (Structurally Sharp Specimen with Vintage Provenance)
An iconic piece of vintage television history transforming classic broadcast lore into literary art.
Throughout the late 1960s and 1970s, Hugo Award-winning author James Blish did what many considered impossible: he seamlessly adapted the episodic scripts of the original Star Trek television series into dynamic, highly readable short fiction. Star Trek 6 stands as a fan-favorite compilation, collecting brilliant adaptations of seminal episodes including "The Savage Curtain" (featuring Abraham Lincoln and Genghis Khan), "The Way to Eden," "The Lights of Zetar," and "Requiem for Methuselah." Blish infuses Roddenberry's teleplays with deeper internal monologues and scientific explanations, making these pocket volumes the definitive way fans engaged with the lore before the dawn of home video.
This striking vintage volume features the legendary green-hued cosmic cover illustration painted by acclaimed British science fiction artist Eddie Jones, capturing the USS Enterprise surveying an alien terrain. Carrying the distinct charm and physical nostalgia of the early fandom era, this book serves as a gorgeous design artifact celebrating the absolute golden age of space opera printing.
Condition Notes
- Overall Profile: Very Good (VG). A beautifully preserved, sturdy specimen that showcases outstanding structural care across decades of shelf storage.
- Cover: Front and rear graphics remain remarkably vibrant, displaying brilliant color depth. Shows only minor, natural surface shelf wear along the edges with no deep scuffs, vertical creases, or heavy corner blunt marks.
- Spine: Structurally flat, square, and firm. The binding avoids any reading creases or vertical cracks, an exceptional find for a 1970s Bantam book, ensuring a rigid and premium shelf display.
- Interior: Page signatures are tight, clean, and completely sound. The first interior leaf features a bold, vintage previous owner signature ("Stephen Cybulski") written neatly in blue ink at the top margin, adding a layer of authentic historic provenance. Pages show a beautifully uniform, rich golden age-toning typical of Bantam's 1970s pulp paper stock.