Interior art by Vincent Di Fate.

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This is a limited edition of an unknown number of copies and was available by subscription only.

One of The Masterpieces of Science Fiction series, indicated by the logo printed on the endpapers.

No ISBN, no printed price, and no dustjacket as issued.

Only a portion of the uncredited illustrative cover design (a single line of standing humans) is repeated on the back.

Pages are gilt-edged and there is a gold satin bookmark bound into the book.

The frontispiece, credited on the title page and separately copyrighted from the interior illustrations, is on the page facing the title page.

In addition to a full-color frontispiece, there are three full-page B&W illustrations by Di Fate on unnumbered plates.

The novel starts ten pages before page 1, which includes Context (0) (a one paragraph Marshall McLuhan epigraph) and 7 pages listing the contents as grouped chapters, not the order of appearance.

«Collector's Notes» (uncredited) are on a double-sided laid-in sheet.

This edition appears to be a facsimile reprint of the 1968 Doubleday edition.