Childhood's End

Overview:

  • Title: Childhood's End
  • Author: Arthur C. Clarke
  • Year: 1967
  • Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson
  • Price: 15/-
  • Pages: 253
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Childhood's End
  • Notes:
    2nd hardcover printing of the 1954 edition. Title page:
    • "Arthur C. Clarke [over] Childhood's End"
    • "London [over] Sidgwick & Jackson"
    Copyright page:
    • "First published in 1954"
    • "Reprinted 1967"
    • "Copyright © 1967 Arthur C. Clarke"
    • "703002" (in large font)
    • "Printed in Great Britain by [over] Thomas Nelson (Printers) Ltd, London and Edinburgh"
    • "for Sidgwick and Jackson Limited [over] 1 Tavistock Chambers, Bloomsbury Way [over] London W.C. 1"
    Front dust jacket flap:
    • "15s in U.K. only"
    Back dust jacket flap:
    • "SF Omnibus Series" (advertisement)
    • "An Alfred Bester Omnibus containing The Demolished Man, Tiger! Tiger!, The Dark Side of the Earth"
    • "A Robert Heinlein Omnibus containing The Man Who Sold the Moon, The Green Hills of Earth, Beyond this Horizon"
    • "An Isaac Asimov Omnibus containing Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation"
    • "An Arthur Clarke Omnibus containing Childhood's End, Prelude to Space, Expedition to Earth"
    • "Each 30s"
    • "EE767" (small letters, at the bottom of the flap)
    Back cover:
    • Only advertisements; lists eight Sidgwick & Jackson titles.
    The artist is not credited anywhere, no signature on the work. Three chapters listed in ToC on unnumbered page 5. Novel starts on first numbered page, 9, finishes on last numbered page, 253. Size: 13 x 19 cm (w x h). Book image without dust jacket here. Crimson boards, gloss finish dust jacket.