Lot 200
Lot 200
Childhood's End

Arthur C. Clarke, 1953

Price Realised USD 8,125
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Childhood's End

Arthur C. Clarke, 1953

Price Realised USD 8,125
Price Realised USD 8,125
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Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke, 1953
CLARKE, Arthur C. (1917-2008). Childhood's End. New York: Ballantine Books, 1953.

First edition, signed by the author. Clarke's celebrated three-part novel explores the consequences of the arrival of benign "Overlords" in spaceships above every major city of the earth. Currey p. 113.

Octavo. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket (small restoration to rear panel, light wear at folds). Provenance: Bruce Howard (authorial inscription).
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