Childhood's End

by Arthur C. Clarke

$4,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

Signed

London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1954. First British edition, first printing. Signed by Arthur C. Clarke directly on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth boards with spine lettered in gilt. Boards slightly splayed with thin sunning to edges, bookstore rubber stamp to front paste down, pages foxed at textblock edge, slight musty odor to pages. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with light edge

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