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Book Club, hardcover and first printing with code J 43 on page 246 and code #3552. True first ediiton, this is the first appearance for this Sturgeon novel. (See L. W. Currey, Catalog 87, 1987.) Not a book club, remainder or ex-library copy. One tiny, (2.0 cm in length) closed tear at bottom edge of front jacket panel, very minor wrinkling at top and bottom of edge jacket panel, with blank owner's bookplate fixed to front free endpaper, else very fine copy in a near fine jacket (not price-clipped). First hardcover edition collecting stories originally published in various magazines during the 1950's, including the excellent "The Golden Helix" published in Thrilling Wonder Strories (1954). Includes a two-page introduction and introductory notes for all the stories by Sturgeon. Two panel, classic SF jacket illustration by Tony Gleeson. Pringle (ed) The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, pg. 140. "Among the finest short story writers in America." Barron (ed) Anatomy of Wonder (1995) *4-446.

Theodore  Sturgeon,  Science  Fiction