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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957. First U.S. Edition. Bookplate signed by Arhtur C. Clarke loosely laid in at front. Tall octavo. 205 pp. Color and black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with $5.00 price present. Blue and orange boards with spine stamped in black; illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket chipped and creased along edges with general rubbing and scuffing. Boards lightly shelfworn, with bumping to top fore-edge corners and nudging at spine ends. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

First American edition. Spine slightly faded, else near fine without dustwrapper. Inscribed by Arthur C. Clarke to his protégé, one-time secretary, and longtime friend Ian Macauley, who was the dedicatee of his first hardcover novel (*Islands in the Sky*): "To Ian and Elsa, with my very best wishes for your future happiness - and hoping that you'll be able to visit us here one day. Arthur, 13 March '59." Macauley was an award-winning *New York Times* journalist, who also edited Clarke's book of collected essays, *Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!* (2000). Clarke wrote the last chapter of *Childhood's End* while visiting Macauley in Atlanta in 1952, where he was reportedly greatly influenced by their discussions. A splendid association copy, and not a book one usually finds signed by Clarke.