Spine ends & corners of book covers have a bit of light bumping and rubbing. Blue paper covered boards have a black paper spine with gilt lettering. Top edge of book has some very beginning sunning. Text pages clean & bright. There is one strange black spot on page 211 which seems to be a publishers error ( there's no bleeding through to the back side of the page as an ink marker would do). Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of very light bumping & rubbing. Overall, a very good copy. Based on the novella -Against the Fall of Night-. -- Diaspar is the last living city on Earth. Timid and untried, the only humans in existence have stagnated there for eons in terror of their own history - the greatness of which remains only in the beauty of the ancient city and in the memories of the unfathomable machines that care for it--.

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