{"id":26410,"date":"2026-09-09T11:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T16:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=26410"},"modified":"2026-10-09T10:49:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:49:43","slug":"library-addition-murray-leinsters-operation-outer-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=26410","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Murray Leinster&#8217;s Operation: Outer Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another book from that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=26396\">Mysterious Benefactor<\/a>, and another small press book from the 1950s. <\/p>\n<p>Leinster, Murray. <b>Operation: Outer Space<\/b>. Fantasy Press, 1954. First edition hardback in a first state blue binding (as per Chalker\/Owings), a Fine- copy with slight bumping at heel and a trace of rubbing to band at heel, in a Near Fine dust jacket with slight creasing and abrasion wear at heel, slight fading to red lettering on spine, tiny trace rubs to front, and a few small spots of dust soiling to white rear cover; overall, a very nice copy. Currey, page 268. Chalker\/Owings, page 162 (&#8220;The first interstellar journey, financed by making it a TV spectacular&#8221;). Kemp, <b>The Anthem Series<\/b>, page 47. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Leinster-Operation-Outer-Space-707x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"652\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-26417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Leinster-Operation-Outer-Space-707x1024.png 707w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Leinster-Operation-Outer-Space-207x300.png 207w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Leinster-Operation-Outer-Space-768x1113.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Leinster-Operation-Outer-Space.png 1051w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another book from that Mysterious Benefactor, and another small press book from the 1950s. Leinster, Murray. Operation: Outer Space. Fantasy Press, 1954. First edition hardback in a first state blue binding (as per Chalker\/Owings), a Fine- copy with slight bumping at heel and a trace of rubbing to band at heel, in a Near Fine&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=26410\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Library Addition: Murray Leinster&#8217;s Operation: Outer Space<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":15,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[1973,988,2839,2838,1970,499],"class_list":["post-26410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-fantasy-press","tag-murray-leinster","tag-mysterious-benefactor","tag-science-fiction","tag-small-press-publishers","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26410"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26421,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26410\/revisions\/26421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}