ANDROMEDA: A SPACE-AGE TALE. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, [1959]. Octavo, cloth. First edition in English. This is a later printing or, possibly a variant, without "FIRST IMPRESSION" printed on the title page and price "10s. 6d. net" printed on the front flap of the dust jacket. "A future panorama of scientific marvels, space travel and utopian egalitarianism is unveiled in what is said to be the most popular and influential of all modern Russian SF novels. First published in English in 1959 ... this Communist classic seems old-fashioned and wooden to most western readers. Filmed in 1968 ..." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), pp. 13-4. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-152. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 58-62. A very good or better copy in very good dust jacket with light wear at edges, mainly at spine ends and corner tips. (#173780).
Price: $100.00
"FIRST IMPRESSION" on recto of title leaf; "First published in English in 1959" on verso of title leaf.