Ace, New York, 1980, reprint.  ISBN 0-441-80696-1.  MMPB, 213 pages.  Very good minus; light edge and cover wear, small corner bends, light reading creases; tight binding.  Prior owner’s name inked on first page; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  ‘… the records that should tell the truth about the man called Conrad Nimikos are mysteriously incomplete.  Some say that he once had a different name – that he is the hero who fought the Vegan empire to a standoff.  Some even whisper that he has had other names, through time out of mind.  But for the moment he is Conrad Nimikos, Commissioner of the Earthoffice Department of Arts, Monuments, and Archives, and incidentally the one man who may have a chance to spare the now-helpless Earth a return engagement with the Vegans…’ (from rear wrap)