Description Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (British, 1917-2008), "Childhood's End". Ballantine Books, New York, 1953, first edition. Octavo, red cloth with black spine titles and original pictoral dust jacket. Approx. 8" x 5.375".
Condition Report Fading to book cover, cloth color has bled into several pages of front and back of book, rips and losses commensurate with age and use to book cover.