Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (First U.S. Edition) Signed

Arthur C. Clarke

ISBN 10: 0151768358 / ISBN 13: 9780151768356

Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1973

About this Item

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (First U.S. Edition) Signed A tight bright copy. A sharp dust jacket. A faint touch of sun to upper white edges otherwise bright. Not price-clipped. Signed by Arthur C. Clarke on the title page. First American Edition. (Preceded by the Gollancz UK edition). Stated First Edition and first printing code "BCDE". Bound in black publisher's cloth with gilt and blue foil titling to spine. Bright yellow endpapers. Psychedelic pictorial dustjacket. $6.95 price on flap. Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the BSFA for Best Novel, 1973. A Hugo, Locus, and Campbell Award finalist, 1974. Seller Inventory # HCX0260-3

Bibliographic Details

Title: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (...

Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York

Publication Date: 1973

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Hal Siegal(Cover Artist)

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition.

Book Type: BOOK

About this title

Synopsis:

During the twenty-second century, a space probe's investigation of a mysterious, cylindrical asteroid brings man into contact with an extra-galactic civilization

Review:

Arthur C. Clarke is awesomely informed about physics and astronomy, and blessed with one of the most astounding imaginations ever encountered in print (NEW YORK TIMES)

For many readers Arthur C. Clarke is the very personification of science fiction (THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION)

Arthur C. Clarke is one of the truly prophetic figures of the space age ... The colossus of science fiction (NEW YORKER)

Quite memorable and at times magical. . . We glimpse our own future in this technological artifact - a future as magical as it is mysterious (BRIAN W. ALDISS)