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Sands of Mars

First American Edition | First Printing

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Signed first American edition of Sands of Mars by Arthur C. Clarke in the publisher’s dust jacket.

Octavo, 216pp. Red cloth, title in black on spine. No additional printings listed. Solid text block, light wear and dust remnants to top edge, faint offsetting to endpapers, a near fine example. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $2.75 retail price on front flap, touch of wear along bottom edge. A vibrant, near fine example. (Currey 115) (Pringle 269)

Inscribed by Arthur C. Clarke on the front free endpaper to science fiction collector Hardin Ramey of Oklahoma.

Before writing 2001: A Space Odyssey with Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke published dozens of science fiction works. One of his earliest publications was this, Sands of Mars, originally titled “The Sands of Mars” in the U.K. in 1951.

Additional information

Location Published

New York

Publisher

Gnome Press Inc.

Edition

First American Edition, First Printing

Date Published

1952

Binding

Cloth

Condition

Near Fine

Jacket Condition

Near Fine

Author

Clarke | Arthur C.

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