PROFILES OF THE FUTURE BY ARTHUR C. CLARKE 1962 FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY WITH LETTER

PROFILES OF THE FUTURE BY ARTHUR C. CLARKE 1962 FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY WITH LETTER

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[CLARKE, ARTHUR C.]. Profiles of the Future: An Enquiry into the Limits of the Possible. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1962.

First edition, first impression. Signed and inscribed presentation copy with letter. Hardcover with dust jacket; octavo (22cm x 14cm x 2cm); pp. 220, [3]. English text; bound in publisher's original covers with gilt spine titles; supplied with the original dust jacket; initial and terminal blanks plus half-title present; tables in the text and charts at end; printed footnotes. Printed in Great Britain by The Camelot Press Ltd. Nicely inscribed by the author on the front endpaper and comes with an accompanying letter addressed to the same recipient. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding secure with slight lean to spine, covers well-preserved, interior with trivial marks to endpapers but otherwise clean. Scarce thus.

Notes: First edition of Arthur C. Clarke's attempt to look into the future, which can be read today with some interesting hindsight. A rare presentation copy with the author's inscription and accompanying letter to Gregory Conway, both dated 29th October 1963.

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