Childhood's End

New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. First Edition, cloth issue. Octavo. 214; [4]pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact. Red cloth boards stamped in black. Dust jacket shows a couple chips to spine ends; staining and mild wrinkling to rear panel and front fold, and sunning to spine. Boards with light edgewear; mild lean to spine; binding sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good copy of this early major early Clarke work, following an apparent peaceful alien invasion, which begins with the Overlords' spaceships arriving above every major city on Earth.