FANTASY PRESS DREADFUL SANCTUARY BY ERIC FRANK RUSSELL (SIGNED,HARDBACK)

CONDITION GOOD, CHIPS & CREASES ON SPINE OF DUST JACKET

AUTHOR:  ERIC FRANK RUSSELL

CATEGORY SCIENCE FICTION

PUBLISHER  FANTASY PRESS 1ST EDIITON. 1951, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO KEN JOHNSON.  ILLUSTRATOR EDD CARTIER.

FANTASY PRESS

AN AMERICAN PUBLISHING HOUSE SPECIALISING IN FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION TITLES.  ESTABLISHED IN 1946 BY LLOYD ARTHUR ESHBACH, IT WAS MOST NOTABLE FOR PUBLISHING THE WORKS OF AUTHORS SUCH AS ROBERT A HEINLEIN AND EE SMITH .

FANTASY PRESS CONTINUED UNTIL 1955, BUT DUE TO THE GLUT OF SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS AND MAGAZINES ON THE MARKET PRODUCED BY MAINSTREAM PUBLISHERS ESHBACH DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO QUIT. 

SYNOPSIS 

A THRILLER IN WHICH A CONSPIRATORIAL GROUP TRIES TO IMPEDE PROGRESS TOWARDS SPACE TRAVEL.  FIRST PUBLISHED AS A 3 PART SERIAL IN "ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION"