EXPEDITION TO EARTH

by Arthur C. Clarke

$850 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: Ballantine Books, 1953 . Octavo, boards. First edition. Clarke's first collection of short fiction. Eleven early stories by this major author, most of them involving space travel and the far future, and written in a yearning, quasi-poetic style. Often they have little stings in the tail. Includes 'The Sentinel' 1951 , which later formed the basis of the novel and film 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 1968 . - Pringle,

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