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Carter, Lin
TOWER AT THE EDGE OF TIME
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Belmont
1968
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.50
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Belmont [B50-804; 1st printing] January 1968 paperback. Cover by ???, 140 pages, 50 cent cover price. Condition is Fine: very tight and square with flat spine; mild to moderate uniform age tanning (slightly darker on insides of covers.) No stamps, marks or writing - a clean copy that looks unread.

A hard-to-find title by Lin Carter: Tower at the Edge of Time. Carter wrote both SF and Fantasy, and was also important as an editor of Fantasy - editing Ballantine's Adult Fantasy line in the late Sixties, which revived many important works. Most of his work falls into the "planetary romance" or "sword and sorcery" categories. He often got the deluxe treatment in presentation, to judge by the top-flight artists who did covers for many of his books.

Tower at the Edge of Time - [the back cover copy]: "It was Thane who crossed the abyss of the ages and stood on the very brink of Eternity... who found the secret of the Time Treasure... who saw, and laughed and came back sane from that place beyond the Universe where no man had ever been before him, and where none should ever come again. This was the ending. But the beginning was in the city of Zotheera on the planet Daikoon...
A restless outworlder was Thane of the Two Swords. A man of blood and steel, a man of strange powers strangely acquired. The warrior Thane possessed a secret vital to the greedy Princess of the Planets. And it was on the planet Daikoon that the princess tried to buy Thane's services... "