Alan Mendelsohn, The Boy From Mars by Daniel M. Pinkwater [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1979 • E.P. Dutton

Alan Mendelsohn, The Boy From Mars by Daniel M. Pinkwater

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1979] E.P. DUTTON

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. 

Dust jacket shows some creasing, along with visible edge and rub wear: a few tiny spot stains on frontispiece.  Otherwise, fully in tact and housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.

Book itself is in excellent condition.  Near-pristine magenta cloth boards. 

Pages are clean, bright and read like new!  Faint hint of discoloration to text block. 

Leonard Neeble, a short, portly, wrinkled kid with glasses, was pretty well ordained to be an outcast at Bat Masterson Junior High School. Especially after he sat down on somebody's half-eaten Good Humor bar in the school yard.

In fact, his new life in the affluent suburb of West Kangaroo Park was generally a washout as far as Leonard was concerned. Until Alan Mendelsohn turned up in his class and being weird became interesting.

The search for additions to Mendelsohn's collection of over two thousand comics led to some unique new experiences, including Mind Control and the Bermuda Triangle Chili Parlor. Jacket illustration by Robert Mertens