LET THE SPACEMEN BEWARE!

First UK edition and first hardcover edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Original taupe paper-covered boards with silver titles to the spine, in the Richard Weaver illustrated dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm. There is a tiny amount of faint spotting to the closed text-block edge, the contents are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£0.90 on the front flap).

Signed by Poul Anderson in blue ink on the title page. A science fiction novel set in Anderson's 'Technic History' universe in which the crew of the spaceship Quetzal are sent to establish relations with a population of humans who have existed in isolation on the planet Gwydion for over a thousand years. The crew find a utopian society that knows no war, violence or greed, but hides a sinister secret.