Description
First edition of Contact: A Novel by Carl Sagan, published in 1985.
Octavo, 432pp. Black hardcover, title in gilt on black cloth spine. The first printing, with full number line listed on copyright page. Solid text block, small bumps to top edge, a near fine example. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $18.95 retail price on front flap, shelf worn, a near fine example.
The majority of Carl Sagan’s career was spent researching the cosmos, with a focus on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Contact, the only complete work of fiction by Dr. Sagan, tells the story of a woman who works for SETI and her experience as a scientist who makes contact with a more technologically advanced life form.
