Prelude to Space
London: Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, 1953. Very Good Condition / Very Good-. Item #50367
London: Sidgwick and Jackson Limited, [1953]. First UK Edition (and first hardcover edition). Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Gerard Quinn retaining original price (9s. 6d. net); 176pp. Cloth margins a bit rubbed and corners nudged, dust jacket rather heavily chipped and worn at margins with shallow losses briefly touching text and illustration. About Very Good.
Clarke's novel follows the leadup to and launch of Prometheus, the first spacecraft capable of reaching the moon. The novel was written in 1947 and first appeared in paperback form in 1951. This revised British hardcover edition followed in 1953, with a US hardcover edition published by Gnome Press the following year.
Price: $150.00