Author: L SPRAGUE DE CAMP
Title: The Purple Pterodactyls the Adventures of W. Wilson Newbury, Ensorcelled Financier
Description: Huntington Woods, MI: Phantasia Press, 1979. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0932096026. Limited to 1300 copies of the trade edition. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has some rubbing to the spine ends, corners and rear panel. There is one small semi-closed tear to the bottom front spine joint. ""Extraterrestrial", a coinage from "extra" + "terrestrial", meaning from beyond earth, is attested as an adjective as early as 1868, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Its first use in connection with life beyond earth was likely by H. G. Wells, in his 1898 novel The War of the Worlds. L. Sprague de Camp is credited with its first usage as a noun with the meaning of "alien life" and with coining the abbreviation "E. T." in the first part of his two-part article "Design for Life", published in the May 1939 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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