The Snail on the Slope

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Overview:

Title: The Snail on the Slope
Author: Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky
Year: 1980
ISBN-10: 0553131974
Publisher: Bantam Books
Price: $1.95
Pages: 243
Binding: Paperback
Type: Novel
Title Reference: The Snail on the Slope
Notes: A Bantam Book / March 1980 Assumed 1st printing.
English translation by Alan Meyers
According to Locus #231 (March 1980), this printing was recalled due to an "inaccurate" blurb on the back cover (the authors "...are now in disfavor with the Soviet government for the bold, outspoken ideas expressed in this novel.") Distribution was halted and bookstores that had received copies were asked to return them to the publisher for destruction.
Cover artist is not credited. A small part of Larkin's signature (B over N) is visible in the lower left corner of the back cover.