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First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author and by the jacket illustrator on the title page, "To Steve Landan, with thanks for reading me. Clifford P. Simak"; "For Steve, with warmest personal regards, Kelly Freas". Dr Stephen Landan was a science fiction fan who joined the World Science Fiction Society and is recorded as attending the Millennium Philcon in 2001. Simak's influential work won the 1953 International Fantasy Award. "At a time when science-fiction writers generally celebrated technology, City's bleak vision of its dangers was a striking innovation, and the novel greatly influenced the medium... It comprises eight loosely connected tales spanning 10,000 years of the Webster family, tracing the history of mankind from the supercity of the near future to an idyllic nontechnological society on Jupiter occupied by the remnant of humanity following the collapse of urban society" (ANB). The famous science fiction illustrator Kelly Freas won multiple Locus and Hugo awards, among many other accolades. He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2006. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in dark green. With dust jacket. Rubbing to edges, contents mildly toned; jacket bright, small chip to spine head, a few closed tears, tape reinforcement on verso, faint splash mark on foot of front flap, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket. Currey, p. 446; Locke I, p. 198.

City is a science fiction novel by Clifford D. Simak. The book collects a series of stories that paint an image of a future Earth where humans have abandoned the planet, leaving intelligent dogs and robots to build a new civilization.