New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1971. First edition. First printing.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1971. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. Jacket has some slight sun-darkening on spine. A clean, tight copy. Publisher s price of $6.95 intact on front jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. Octavo, 335 pages. 8vo, red boards with gilt spine lettering, blue endpapers. A historical novel centered on the life of 13th-century English philosopher and scientist Roger Bacon, blending speculative fiction and medieval scholarship. The second volume (chronologically first) in Blish s After Such Knowledge trilogy, preceded in publication by "A Case of Conscience."

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