AHEAD OF TIME. Ten Stories.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding is square and firm, and lightly bumped to the spine tips. The contents, with some offsetting to the endpapers, are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. The text block is a little toned. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked, and creased dustwrapper, which is a little faded to the spine, and lightly marked to both panels. Not price-clipped (9s. 6d. net to the lower front flap). An attractive copy.

A collection of science fiction stories by American author Henry Kuttner (1915-1958), first published in 1953 by Ballantine Books. Comprising 'Or Else', 'Home Is The Hunter', 'By These Presents', 'De Profundis', 'Camouflage', 'Year Day', 'Ghost', 'Shock', 'Pile of Trouble', 'Deadlock' and six stories identified as collaborations between Kuttner and his wife (prolific science fiction and fantasy author C. L. Moore), 'Or Else', 'Home Is The Hunter', 'De Profundis', 'Camouflage', 'Shock', and 'Deadlock'.