Book Details
Title: Ossian's Ride
Author: Fred Hoyle
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Heinemann
Year: 1959
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket (in plastic sleeve)
Pages: 252
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: N/A
Battle Scars:
Overall acceptable condition.
Outside:
The dust jacket is covered in a plastic sleeve and backed with a tailored cardboard piece as pictured, so fairly well preserved. Despite this, there is clear wear to joints and corners through rubbing and creasing/small tears as pictured.
The hardcover is intact with some shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners. The embossing on the spine remains intact and legible.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are yellowed. There is foxing present, but more heavily on the top margin profile.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is yellowed/tanned. On the bottom of the front-end page is a book-seller's stamp. It seems the back-end page has been torn out, which also damaged the lining inside the rear cover, as photographed.
The pages are clean and intact. There is some mild discolouration (yellowing) and foxing, mainly at the margins.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"In 1957 the celebrated astronomer Fred Hoyle produced his first work of fiction. 'The Black Cloud', a scientific romance, achieved instantaneous popularity. It was a Book Society Recommendation and is now being translated into many languages.
He now follows up that success with a new novel of the same calibre and kind: Ossian's Ride. The situation, like that of its predecessor, is intriguing and highly original. In the early 1970s, world governments are baffled by the sudden rise of industrialisation in the south of Ireland, with its centre in that part of Kerry where Ossian is said to have made his famous ride. All attempts by security forces to discover the mainspring of this development fail, until Thomas Sherwood, a young graduate from (not surprisingly) Cambridge, is sent to investigate. Ossian's Ride describes young Sherwood's adventures in a jungle of espionage and the strange way he completes his mission."
Book Details
Title: Ossian's Ride
Author: Fred Hoyle
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Heinemann
Year: 1959
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket (in plastic sleeve)
Pages: 252
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: N/A
Battle Scars:
Overall acceptable condition.
Outside:
The dust jacket is covered in a plastic sleeve and backed with a tailored cardboard piece as pictured, so fairly well preserved. Despite this, there is clear wear to joints and corners through rubbing and creasing/small tears as pictured.
The hardcover is intact with some shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners. The embossing on the spine remains intact and legible.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are yellowed. There is foxing present, but more heavily on the top margin profile.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is yellowed/tanned. On the bottom of the front-end page is a book-seller's stamp. It seems the back-end page has been torn out, which also damaged the lining inside the rear cover, as photographed.
The pages are clean and intact. There is some mild discolouration (yellowing) and foxing, mainly at the margins.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"In 1957 the celebrated astronomer Fred Hoyle produced his first work of fiction. 'The Black Cloud', a scientific romance, achieved instantaneous popularity. It was a Book Society Recommendation and is now being translated into many languages.
He now follows up that success with a new novel of the same calibre and kind: Ossian's Ride. The situation, like that of its predecessor, is intriguing and highly original. In the early 1970s, world governments are baffled by the sudden rise of industrialisation in the south of Ireland, with its centre in that part of Kerry where Ossian is said to have made his famous ride. All attempts by security forces to discover the mainspring of this development fail, until Thomas Sherwood, a young graduate from (not surprisingly) Cambridge, is sent to investigate. Ossian's Ride describes young Sherwood's adventures in a jungle of espionage and the strange way he completes his mission."
