The Eighty-Minute Hour: A Space Opera

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. SIGNED. 226pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with the title stamped in gilt on the spine. The boards are rubbed, and the spine ends are bumped and rubbed. In a dust jacket with moderate scuffing and soiling to the surface. Brian Aldiss was voted Best Contemporary Writer of Science Fiction shortly before this was published. Signed on the front free endsheet, "Best Wishes from Beyond the Clock! Brian W. Aldiss." There is also a red ink stamp on this page, bearing the initials "BWA," and with the notation in pen, "Warning: This Edition Contains Errors & Heresies.