Chicago: Contemporary Books, (1992).
Price: $450.00
Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Ownership Signature of Ian Macauley, with a few notes in the text, else fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by Arthur C. Clarke and Neil McAleer on a bookplate. Macauley was Clarke's protégé, one-time secretary, and longtime friend, and the dedicatee of *Islands in the Sky*, Clarke's first published hardcover novel, a story for adolescents. He was an award-winning *New York Times* journalist who also edited Clarke's book of collected essays, *Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!* (2000). Clarke wrote the last chapter of *Childhood's End* while visiting Macauley in Atlanta in 1952, where he was reportedly greatly influenced by their discussions. Macauley has marked the index at the several places in the book where he is mentioned.
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Arthur C. Clarke
birth name: Arthur Charles Clarke
born: 12/16/1917
died: 3/19/2008