256 pages. The red boards are lightly shelf soiled, the fore-edge lightly foxed and there is a discrete Robertson & Mullins sticker on the tail of front paste down. A clean,unmarked and solid copy, though obviously second hand. First published by Simon and Schuster in 1950, this is a stated first British edition. "Alfred Elton van Vogt ( April 26, 1912 - January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born science fiction author. His fragmented, bizarre narrative style influenced later science fiction writers, notably Philip K. Dick. He was one of the most popular and influential practitioners of science fiction in the mid-twentieth century, the genre's so-called Golden Age, and one of the most complex. The Science Fiction Writers of America named him their 14th Grand Master in 1995 (presented 1996).....The Voyage of the Space Beagle....Fix-up of four short stories, originally published 1939 - 1950." (Wikipedia)