Contact by Sagan, Carl - 1985

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985 First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine (with S&S "The Sower" remainder) in Fine jacket. See scans and description. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985. Carl Sagan's memorable "Contact" sci-fi novel, First Edition and First Printing. Octavo, jacket illustrated with painting by Jon Lomberg, black cloth-backed black paper covered boards, gray endpapers, 432 pp. Near Fine book - in fact Fine, but it does have the Simon and Schuster "The Sower" logo on the bottom page edges, presumably as a remainder mark back when that was so in vogue. Otherwise, just a couple of dust patches on page edges. Unclipped jacket is Fine. See scans. A highly collectible, and ever-scarcer, title in the science fiction genre - and, yes, it very much meets even the most rigorous hard sci-fi requirements (for comparison, such cultural icons as the SyFy channel never, ever meet those requirements). That was something of a surprise. L19n