Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of Imperial Earth by Arthur C. Clarke in an archival wrap.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title gilt on a lightly wrinkled spine. Also, clean page blocks, tight binding, heavy spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and one rubbed corners and edge. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with the name and date of the previous owner on the first free end paper and the ghost of an erased price on the half-title page that follows. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with no price on the front flap as issued, moderate surface wear and mild edge wear. Looks great in a Brodart archival wrap.
Duncan Makenzie makes the journey from his satellite republic of Titan to Earth, as diplomatic guest at the United States’s Quincentennial, observer of humanity’s oldest existing civilization, and seeker after the woman he has loved for years
Small volume ships promptly in a corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
