£120
FIRST BRITISH EDITION, 8vo, pp. [vi], 233, [1]. Original red boards, spine lettered in gilt, yellow dustjacket printed in maroon and black, prize belly-band. Some light soiling to dustjacket, spine panel and edges of front panel toned, belly-band repaired at spine.
The first British edition of this early Sturgeon novel, a revised expansion of an earlier novella about the creation of a post-human gestalt consciousness. With the rare belly-band announcing that the book had won first prize from the International Fantasy and Science Fiction Award Committee.
