Lot 5 DRAY PRESCOT Antares / Scorpio DAW Vintage Paperbacks 70s / 80s 1st Prints

Description: Lot 5 DRAY PRESCOT Antares / Scorpio DAW Vintage Paperbacks 70s / 80s 1st Prints. Good condition. Covers are clean with mild to moderate shelf wear. Spines are tight. Page edges are clean. Ink stamp on first page of Mazes of Scorpio. Sticker on spine of Rebel of Antares. No other writing, torn, missing or loose pages. The Dray Prescot series is a sequence of fifty-two science fiction novels and a number of associated short stories of the subgenre generally classified as sword and planet, written by British author Kenneth Bulmer under the pseudonym of Alan Burt Akers. The series features the story of Earthman Dray Prescot, an English sailor of Nelson's navy, and his miraculous teleportation to the planet Kregen. There he is trained as an agent for the mysterious Savanti, an apparently benevolent secret society devoted to improving the lot of humanity among the many intelligent species of Kregen. The Savanti are the guardians of a miraculous pool which both heals wounds and extends life, similar to the Fountain of Youth in Earth legend. Prescot falls from grace for using this pool to heal Delia, an injured supplicant to the Savanti, and incidentally the princess of the island empire of Vallia. Thanks to their immersion in the pool Prescot and Delia gain extended natural lifespans of a thousand years, but by violating the sanctity of the pool both are banished back to their homelands—in Prescot’s case, Earth.

Price: 14.61 USD

Location: Redlands, California

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