LEINSTER, MURRAY (WILLIAM FITZGERALD JENKINS) — Operation: Outer Space

New York, NY: New American Library, 1957. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB. Illustrated by Robert E. Schulz. Cover Art; This is a mass market paperback book with illustrated covers and a glued spine. Signet Books number S1346, with a price of .35 cents. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and wear. The text pages are clean but there is some generalized light toning. "Leinster\'s first science fiction story, "The Runaway Skyscraper", appeared in the February 22, 1919 issue of Argosy, and was reprinted in the June 1926 issue of Hugo Gernsback\'s first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. In the 1930s, he published several science fiction stories and serials in Amazing and Astounding Stories (the first issue of Astounding included his story "Tanks"). His work continued to appear frequently in other genre pulps such as Detective Fiction Weekly and Smashing Western, as well as Collier\'s Weekly beginning in 1936 and Esquire starting in 1939." (from Wikipedia). Very Good .