Arthur C. Clarke. 2001: A Space Odyssey. New York: 1968. First edition, first printing....

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Arthur C. Clarke. 2001: A Space Odyssey. Based on a Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. New York: The New American Library, 1968. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 221, [3, blank] pages. Publisher's one-quarter black paper over blue paper-covered boards, spine lettered in silver and metallic blue; all text block edges trimmed; black and blue pictorial endpapers; original pictorial dust jacket. Just a touch of wear at bottom end of spine; minor discoloration at top and bottom edges of boards; small speck of soiling to front board. Light tanning and a bit of mild soiling to edges of text block; small amount of faint, marginal foxing scattered occasionally throughout interior at margins. Light, uneven yellowing to jacket; exposed panels just a touch rubbed; just a bit of wear at flap fold ends; top ends of flaps slightly rumpled. Single speck of soiling at verso. Near fine. Novelization of the treatment that would also become Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film of the same name. Barron, Anatomy of Wonder (1987), 4-140; Currey, p. 115. From the Glynn and Suzanne Crain Collection.