Brain Wave

New York: Walker and Company, 1969. First thus. First printing of the first American hardcover edition (originally published in paperback, 1954; in cloth in the UK in 1955). Octavo. White cloth hardcover; rose-pink topstain; fore edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 164pp. Spine ends bumped, else a tight, Near Fine copy, with the topstain even and unfaded. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped, slightly toned and with two faint splash-stains at upper margin of front panel; Very Good.

A rather hard-to-find hardcover reissue of this early Anderson novel, an exploration of the potential effects of greatly heightened intelligence among Earth's inhabitants. Anderson considered it one of his best works, which likely accounts for the existence of this reissue some fifteen years after the book's first appearance.