The Best of Cordwainer Smith - Edited by J.J. Pierce - 1975 Ballantine Books Paperback - Darrell K. Sweet Cover Helen Sherman Griffith Annotated Primary Bibliography

Annotated Primary Bibliography

Embossed private library stamp on title page

There crops grew tall and the superstition-ridden farmers gave thanks to the unseen Elder Ones with a human sacrifice each year

and 64 merchant ship captains peer forth from an imposing gallery of photographic portraits

Cover art: Sergey Nivens

The Best of Cordwainer Smith - Edited by J.J. Pierce - 1975 Ballantine Books Paperback - Darrell K. Sweet Cover Helen Sherman Griffith Annotated Primary BibliographyCondition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Cover artist: Darrell K. Sweet Blurb: The book contains twelve short works of fiction by the author, all set in his "Instrumentality of Mankind" future history series, together with an introduction and timeline by editor J. J. Pierce. All versions of the collection following the first feature a corrected version of the timeline, retitled "TImeline from The Instrumentality of Mankind." ISBN