CITIES IN FLIGHT. Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., [1973]. Octavo, boards. First combined hardcover edition. First printing with code "03O" on page [595]. Collects four connected novels; THEY SHALL HAVE STARS (1956), A LIFE FOR THE STARS (1962), EARTHMAN, COME HOME (1955), and THE TRIUMPH OF TIME (1958). "Part I builds the foundation for the tetralogy: invention of anti-agathic drugs and anti-gravity transport which make it possible to escape decadent Earth. Part II deals with the launching of the Okie cities with their computerized "City Fathers." Part III covers the period leading up to the settlement of New Earth by the Okie city New York. Part IV encompasses nothing less than the destruction of the old and creation of a new universe." - Mowshowitz, p. 302. Anatomy of Wonder ((2004) II-137. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 358-62. Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with internal tape mend at upper spine end. (#177463).
Price: $45.00
No statement of printing on copyright page. First printing has code "03O" on page [595].