The City and the Stars

by Clarke, Arthur C

First Edition

Price: $700.00
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Book desription: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue boards with silver lettering on spine. Lower corners are slightly bruised, dustjacket shows light wear along the edges and has a tiny scratch on front panel. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket. Expanded and revised from the author's first novel Against the Fall of the Night. #22 in The 100 Best Novels of Science Fiction, ed. David Pringle, 1985. "The City and the Stars is one of the strongest tales of conceptual breakthrough in genre sf... perhaps his most memorable work." The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, eds. Clute and Nicholls, 1999, p. 230. An extremely lovely copy. ; Octavo; 310 pages .

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