EMPIRE OF THE ATOM

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Original grey faux leather with navy blue titles to the spine, in the H. W. McCauley illustrated dustwrapper. Top edge blue. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents, with a little faint spotting to the closed text-block edge, are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and creased original dustwrapper which has a small chip to the foot of the front flap fold and two short closed tears to the spine tips. There are three small pieces of tape to the underside. Not price-clipped ($3.00 on the front flap).

Inscribed by A. E. van Vogt in blue ink on the title page "For Dick / All the best wishes / of the author / A E van Vogt". An interstellar fix-up novel adapted from several science fiction stories published in Astounding Science Fiction magazine in 1946 and 1947. A sequel, 'The Wizard of Linn', was published in 1962.