Del Rey, New York, 1980, 1st pr thus.  ISBN 0-345-28726-6.  MMPB, 266 pages.  Wraps show edge and cover wear, corner creases, reading creases, some scratches; binding sound.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages; some foxing on outer page block, inner front and rear wraps and first page.  ‘Hunter Hawk upset everybody who knew him – especially his ultra-respectable relatives who lived off his bounty.  His experiments produced bad smells and explosions.  Worse, one of them gave him a method of turning troublesome people to stone…as his relatives learned first-hand.  Then Hawk’s bizarre encounter with Megaera, a fetching 900-year-old wood sprite, inspired him to reverse the feat – to bring to life the marble statues of the ancient gods of Olympus.  It was a pity he didn’t stop to think just what it would mean to turn Venus, Diana, Mars, Bacchus and Mercury loose on Broadway – or to introduce Neptune to the pleasures of the Fulton Fish Market.’ (from rear wrap)