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With: Renaissance. [Author’s second book & first book of Sci-Fi]. Ownership signature of Robert Hodgens. Gnome Press, [1951]. * The Toymaker. Fantasy Pub. Co., [1951]. * This Island Earth. [Basis for the 1955 film]. Dj spine and edges a bit sunned. Shasta, [1952]. Together, 3 volumes. Original cloth &/or boards, pictorial jackets. First Editions.

Raymond F. Jones (1915-1994) worked for the Weather Bureau and the Genealogical Society for many years and was a well known writer of science, fact and fiction. These books were novelized from earlier short installments by Jones which were originally published in pulp periodicals of the Golden Age.