Clans of the Alphane Moon

New York: Ace Books, Inc, 1964. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (16cm); pictorial card wrappers; yellow edge-staining; [4],5-192pp. Modest wear, some tanning to text edges and inner covers, with some faint creases to front wrapper; Very Good. "Chuck Rittersdorf is a CIA agent who has been duped by his hateful wife into moonlighting for a comedian in the pay of aliens. Betrayed on all sides, Chuck's only refuge is Alphane, a former hospital colony for psychotics. He is accompanied by his advisor, a telepathic slime-mold. All of Rittersdorf's enemies and allies meet on the psychotic planetoid, to settle their own differences and also to negotiate the Terran-Alphane war" (Levack 4a). (Inventory #: 55901)