Berkley (#F918; 1st printing) May 1964 paperback. Cover by Richard Powers, 142 pages, 50 cent cover price. Condition is Fine(-): tight and very square with flat spine (spine has a couple of low raised ridges - as printed); age tanning is very very mild and uniform (barely darker on insides of covers - quite exceptional for its vintage.) No stamps, marks or writing - this looks new / unread / edges still have some crispness. The only traces of wear are a couple of bits of wear on spine, and barest trace of rubbing wear on the back cover.

The Other Side of Nowhere, a novel by Murray Leinster. Serialized ("a somewhat different version") in Analog March & April 1964 as "Spaceman."

I probably read the serial version decades ago, so for a reasonable plot summation I again rely on excerpts from a review by my favorite reviewer - from Analog January 1965:
"...it's a straight adventure-plus-mystery yarn, set in the author's future universe of the landing grids... ...The Rim Star is a very strange ship with a very strange captain and an ominous crew, as First Officer Braden discovers before he has signed on. The first part of the story is devoted to Braden's efforts to find out what kind of trouble is brewing; the rest of the book deals with his and the captain's struggle to cope with it. This much can be said: the crew are pirates who have looted another ship and intend to take the Rim Star. They are as crafty as they are violent. And Braden draws on the folklore of space to defeat them. Read through for the story; it's good fun. Then browse back and see just how much extra that old veteran of popular fiction, Murray Leinster, has fitted unobtrusively into and around his plot. If he's not Robert Heinlein's equal at this, he's in the same league. Which is, of course, one reason why you read the story here first..." [P. Schuyler Miller]