NY: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1979. First edition. 234pp. Beige boards backed with brown cloth; dust jacket. Mild toning to board and textblock edges, tiny bump to bottom corner of front board. Else fine in a very near fine price-clipped jacket with light rubbing to rear panel.
Sharp copy of the first English-language edition of this science fiction novel by Russian authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Originally written in 1966-1967, the work was long suppressed in the USSR, circulating only in samizdat until its 1987 publication in a Latvian magazine. This translation from the Russian by Alice Stone Nakhimovsky and Alexander Nakhimovsky. Jacket illustration by Richard Powers.
