CLARKE, Arthur Charles, Sir (1917-2008). Prelude to Space. New York: World Editions, Inc., 1951.
8vo. Original pictorial wraps (rubbing).
FIRST EDITION OF CLARKE'S FIRST NOVEL, SIGNED BY CLARKE. Prelude to Space was first published as a paperback by World Editions, Inc. for its Galaxy Science Fiction series. Two years later it was republished as a hardcover by Sidgwick & Jackson in London and later that year by the Gnome Press in the United States. The first full-length novel to be published by Clarke, Prelude to Space set the stage for a career that would see him lauded, alongside Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein, as one of the three most significant science fiction authors of the twentieth century.
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