0533046742. Stated first edition. Original black cloth, 5 ½ x 8 ¼ inches,

0533046742. Stated first edition. Original black cloth, 5 ½ x 8 ¼ inches, 166 pp. Hardcover, very good in very good dustjacket. Dustjacket starting to lightly age yellow, bit of foxing, a few 1/16th inch nicks, "ghost" of a price label on front panel, original price present. Book itself has foxing along edges of textblock, whiff of tobacco, Library of Congress duplicate rubber stamp on front endpaper, remnants of card jacket on rear endpaper, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked and apparently never read. Dystopian novel in which a new Ice Age decimates humanity, and the last survivors are helped, or so it seems, by extraterrestrials. Science fiction; modern first; dystopia.