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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960. First Edition. Octavo. 320 pp. Milton Glaser-illustrated dust jacket with $4.95 price present. Black and pink boards. Dust jacket lightly chipped at extremities with adjacent creasing; a couple short closed tears; quarter-sized stain to spine. Light wear to edges of boards and binding sound. Ownership signature of a Richard K. Betts to front free endpaper; underlining and marginalia in pen to about 18 pages of text, with a few written notes to rear free endpaper. Text still legible throughout and overall a Very Good copy of Miller's classic of post-apocalyptic science fiction.

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.