Arthur C. Clarke by Arthur C. Clarke - 1974

First printing of this edition. Cover and spine have much wear and many creases. Stamp on advertisement page. Prior owner's name on rear cover. Pages are clean and unmarked, tanning. Signet mass paperback, first printing June 1974, complete number line. ISBN: 9780451059499, Signet 451 Y5949, 240 pages, 12mo (7" x 4.25") First printing of this paperback edition. Paperback reprint of Harcourt hard cover first edition. The best science fiction stories of Arthur C. Clarke, including: The Nine Billion Names of God (voted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame by Science Fiction Writers of America), I Remember Babylon, Trouble With Time, Rescue Party, The Curse, Summertime on Icarus, Dog Star, Hide and Seek, Out of the Sun, The Wall of Darkness, No Morning After, The Possessed, Death and the Senator, Who's There?, Before Eden, Superiority, A Walk in the Dark, The Call of the Stars, The Reluctant Orchid, Encounter in the Dawn, "If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth . . .", Patent Pending, The Sentinel (basis of 2001: A Space Odyssey), Transience, The Star (winner, 1956 Hugo Award).