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Smaller octavo. Rose colored boards eighthbound in a black cloth backstrip with rose colored lettering on the spine. Book has a light bump at the head of the spine and a fair amount of bumping at the tail. Just enough rubbing at the extremities of the four outside corners to wear the color off of their very tips. White endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are clean, white, and crisp. 320 pages. Dust Jacket - has a series of 1/8" chips in the head of the spine and a 1/4" chip in each of the corner4s of the tail. 1/8" chip in the tip of each of the two upper outside corners and a 1/3" chip in the tip of each of the two lower outside corners. Upper and lower edges have a trace of rubbing and a few very faint wrinkles. There are two or three tiny closed tears in the upper edge of the rear cover. Rear cover had quotations from Kingsley Amis, Pat Frank, and R. W. B. Lewis. Lower corner of the front inside flap has been price clipped. Colors on the art and lettering are all still clear, but the white background shows faint evidence of handling over time. Dut jacket artwork by Milton Glaser. Miller's debut is considered, to this day, to be one of the greatest and most imaginitive science fiction novels every written. If you'd like to see any part of this book not shown in our images, please don't hesitate to message.

A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1960. It is a reflective work of the Cold War era that explores the cyclical nature of history, particularly the conflict between science and religion. The story spans thousands of years and centers on the monks of the fictional Albertian Order of Leibowitz as they preserve the remnants of humanity's scientific knowledge until the world is again ready for it.