Description
Signed 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, a fine example. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $18.95 retail price on front flap, touch of shelf wear, a near fine example. Includes provenance from RR Auctions of Amherst, New Hampshire.
Signed by the author on the title page: “For the advancement of science at Minot State College, with best wishes, Carl Sagan.”
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.
