The Science Fiction Novel: Imagination and Social Criticism

Chicago: Advent Publishers, 1959. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.25cm); grey cloth, with titles stamped in copper on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-160pp. Slight lean, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.50), shelfworn, sunned at spine and extremities, with some shallow losses and small tears along the upper edge; Very Good. An examination of science-fiction as a force of measurable social criticism, with contributions by Bloch, Bester, Basil Davenport, Robert Heinlein, and C.M. Kornbluth. 82171.