PLANET OF NO RETURN

First UK edition and first hardcover edition, first printing. Original taupe paper-covered boards with silver titles to the spine, in the Richard Weaver illustrated dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, with a bump to the head of the spine, the boards bright and fresh. The contents, with some very faint spotting to the closed text-block edge, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that is toned and with a small abrasion to the spine, and a very short closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel, and the bottom edge of the front panel. Not price-clipped (13s 6d on the front flap).

A science fiction novel set in a future in which humanity is struggling on a dangerously overpopulated Earth. A manned spaceship is sent on an expedition to investigate a potentially inhabitable planet after the first exploration ship went missing and never returned.