PRELUDE TO SPACE
$25 · Offered by L. W. Currey
New York: Gnome Press, Inc. with Ballantine Books, 1954 . Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First mass market paperback edition. Ballantine Books 68. Clarke's first SF book. First published as Galaxy Science Fiction Novel, number 3 in 1951. Anatomy of Wonder 1987 3-103. Light rubbing to spine ends and top and fore-edges of rear cover, a bright, nearly fine copy. #87808
- Binding: Paperback
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