The Demolished Man

Chicago: Shasta, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), lightly soiled, a scuff under the author's name on the front panel, a thin tidemark on the rear panel. Quarter blue cloth with red paper on the boards, some rubbing to the paper. Square and firmly bound with a dark blue top stain, a few stains at the fore-edge and endpapers, clean otherwise. Bester's Hugo Award-winning science fiction detective novel, one so great that the post-modern master Thomas Pynchon wanted to adapt it into an Opera as part of his Ford Foundation Fellowship.