Islands in the Sky

Philadelphia & Toronto: John C. Winston Company, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. backstrip lettered in orange. Near fine in illustrated dust wrapper. 209 pages. 21.5 x 15 cm. An early work directed by Clarke and the publisher for a juvenile audience. The novel's theme -- As a prize for winning a TV quiz show the protagonist is sent to an orbiting space station. He encounters adventures involving space pirates and a runaway rocket ship. It was considered a routine adventure story, but the technology necessary for space travel was called "exceptional." See: [BARRON, ANATOMY OF WONDER 5-23]. CURRY p.114. Price clipped dust wrapper, decorated endpapers, chipping to head and foot of dust wrapper.