Simak (Clifford) Way Station
£195
London, Gollancz, 1964.
First UK edition. Ex-library. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
The first UK edition of Simak’s sci-fi classic, about a lonely immortal farmer who man & maintains a way station for aliens in Wisconsin, winner of the Hugo prize for that year.
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Ex library, with ‘withdrawn’ stamp on title-page, tape-marks/-burns to endpapers; boards slightly bumped and darkened at edges, with tape mark near each edge; jacket price-clipped, straight horizontal crease near lower edge, red (redaction?) stripe to upper panel, o/w VG.
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