{"product_id":"planet-of-the-knob-heads-in-science-fiction-vol-i-no-5-december-1939","title":"Planet of the Knob Heads [in] Science Fiction Vol I, No. 5, December 1939","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCOBLENTZ, Stanton A.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; \"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePlanet of the Knob Heads [in] Science Fiction Vol I, No. 5, December 1939\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; \"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew York: Blue Ribbon, 1939 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; \"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e8vo., decorative coloured and glued card wraps featuring a semi-clad woman astride a humanoid robot being attacked by men on motorbikes with what look like laser pistols; I.C.S. advertisement to the lower cover; pp. [i], 2-96, printed on newspaper-grade paper throughout, with advertisements to the inside covers; contents headpiece and numerous tailpieces; the title story with two-page illustration; a good to very good copy for this type of publication, some rubbing to the upper cover and particularly so along spine; fragile and beginning to split with some chipping, but holding firm; pages browned, as usual. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify; \"\u003eA surprisingly rare edition of Science Fiction magazine, priced 15c. This copy including the complete book-length novel of ‘Planet of the Knob-heads’, as well as ‘The Atom Prince’ by Ray Cummings, and three further short stories, one of which involves a future where WWII has killed off the majority of the world’s men, women rule and enslave any remaining men in the mines. A particularly fine advertisement to the rear of the text shows Charles Atlas, the world’s most perfectly developed man, promising a body like his in just seven days. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Zuwanna was only postponing the worst, I knew, until she found a suitable knob....she would examine the knobs of newly defunct citizens. But she was not easily pleased. One knob was too small, and one was too large, and one had a crease in it, and one had a spot, and one was too bony, and one was too fatty...”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fold the Corner Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55917396263236,"sku":"SQ5965219","price":125.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/8711\/0212\/files\/414Foldthecornerbooks02194.jpg?v=1776873085","url":"https:\/\/foldthecornerbooks.co.uk\/products\/planet-of-the-knob-heads-in-science-fiction-vol-i-no-5-december-1939","provider":"Fold the Corner Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}