THE CITY AND THE STARS

First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding firm, the extremities lightly rubbed and bumped. There is some spotting to the closed text-block edge, endpapers and margins, the contents are otherwise clean and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and creased original dustwrapper which is slightly toned to the spine and has some minor chipping at the spine tips. Not price-clipped (13/6 on the front flap).

A science fiction novel set in the distant future. A compete rewrite of the author's first novel 'Against the Fall of Night' which was first printed in Startling Stories Magazine in 1948.