James Blish – A Case Of Conscience – First Edition 1959

First UK edition, first printing of ‘A Case of Conscience’ published by Faber and Faber in 1959. Crown octavo. 208pp. Publisher’s original mid-blue boards with yellow lettering to the spine, in the original pictorial dust wrapper designed by Peter Curl. A near fine book (unobstrusive previous owner’s inscription to the pastedown) in a near fine (or better) dust wrapper, with only light wear to the extremities and a neat sticker shadow to the front flap.

Expanded from Blish’s 1953 novella, this pioneering fusion of theology and science fiction won the 1959 Hugo Award for Best Novel. The true first book edition was the 1958 American paperback original.