First British edition, first printing. Publisher's original orange cloth with gilt titles to the spine and upper board, without the scarce dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with bumping and rubbing to the extremities, the cloth marked and toned to the spine. The contents, with a previous owner's signature to the half title, a small bookseller's ticket to the rear pastedown are a little spotted throughout and darkened to the closed text block edge.
The story of a Greek peasant who embraces the machine age but becomes disillusioned with technical progress and its use for war. (Bleiler; Locke: A Spectrum of Fantasy).
Stock code: 25730
£35