red cloth with black embossed title on spine, in original unclipped ($2.00) illustrated dust-jacket, (8.75 x 6 inches). First Edition, stated on copyright page. 214 pages; Jacket illustration by Virgil Finlay, Endpaper Design by Alex Schomburg. Jacket blurb:"How a family of earthlings battles for its life when a Moon-bound rocket crashes in the misty wilds of Venus is a tale of powerful reality." A clean, tight copy with typical page toning, in lightly worn jacket. Presents nicely in mylar protected jacket.