Arthur C. Clarke: 'Childhood's End', London, Sidgwick & Jack...

Hammer

£140

Arthur C. Clarke: 'Childhood's End', London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1954, 1st UK edition, original cloth, dust wrapper (some small nicks and slight wear to edges, else generally VGC, 10s6d price intact). The story of a peaceful alien invasion of earth, leading to many years of apparent utopia at the cost of human identity and culture. Regarded as one of the best novels by Arthur C. Clarke, English science-fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host, one of the towering figures of the Science Fiction genre along with Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein