PRELUDE TO SPACE.
New York: Gnome Press with Ballantine Books, [1954]. Vintage original pictorial wrappers. 166,[6] pp. Cover art work by "Powers." Ballantine Books #68. First mass market paperback edition; published simultaneously in a hardbound edition. Light rubbing to extremities, text toned, else a very good copy.
The lower panel's publisher's text is worth noting: "For more than two thousand years men have dreamed of journeying into space. Today that dream is very close to reality -- so near, in fact, that it may be achieved within our own lifetime.
In this extraordinary novel, Arthur C. Clarke, Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society and one of today's finest science-fiction writers, makes you an eyewitness of the future. To read this book is to know: this is the way the Age of Space will begin." Imagine that. Item #680
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