Childhood's End
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Overview:
- Title: Childhood's End
- Author: Arthur C. Clarke
- Year: Unknown
- ISBN-10: 9780345347954
- Publisher: Del Rey / Ballantine
- Price: $6.99
- Pages: viii+212
- Binding: Paperback
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Childhood's End
- Notes:
- 21st printing (from numberline)
- Publication date not available
- Printing history on copyright page:
- First published 1954 by Sidgwick & Jackson
- First published by Pan Books Ltd 1956
- This edition, with foreword and new first chapter by the author, first published 1990 by Pan Books Ltd.
- First Ballantine Books Edition: August 1953
- The copyright page states "Cover art by Stanislaw Fernandes". The back cover states "Cover photos by Uniphoto and Phil Heffernan" and "Collage by David Stevenson". It is unclear which of the statements is correct. This pub record uses David Stevenson as the artist solely because other Del Rey pub records are already doing so.
- Additional price on back cover: C$8.99
- Page [ix] has the following note, presumably by Clarke: "Note: Apart from the new Prologue, no alterations have been made to the text. From Chapter Two onwards, Childhood's End remains exactly as in 1953."
- This printing does not yet contain the note about Clarke's death that is mentioned in the notes of the pub record for the 24th printing