AGAINST THE FALL OF NIGHT

by Arthur C. Clarke

$850 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition · Signed

New York : Gnome Press, Inc., 1953 . Octavo, boards. First edition. Later expanded and rewritten as THE CITY AND THE STARS 1956 , this earlier version is still preferred by many readers. This copy has a brief signed inscription to Bill by Kelly Freas, who painted the illustration for the dust jacket. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-245. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 374-77.

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