First UK edition. Translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis, with an introduction by Theodore Sturgeon. 8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, Gollancz yellow dust jacket. London, Gollancz, 1977.
The first English translation of what is certainly the most famous work by the great Soviet science fiction writers and brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. A deeply philosophical novel, it was famously adapted to film by the legendary Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky in 1979 under the title ‘Stalker’.
A fine copy.
