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New York, NY: Knopf, 1952. First edition (stated) /first printing. Book is in very good + condition with a very good + (darkening to spine, light wear at extremities, slight moisture stain at base of spine) unclipped dustjacket protected in a Brodart wrapper. An Attractive Copy! Please feel free to ask me for pictures or more information, Thanks.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1952. Hardcover. First edition "Half a thriller and half a parable...relates the adventures of a modern Gulliver who finds himself by sudden castastrophe too big for ordinary life". 271+ pages, pictorial title page. Tuck [The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, page 377 "Modern Guilliver---a man wakes to find himself 13 feet tall and weighing 160 stone (about one metric ton)"]. Reginald 12666. Very good with 3/16" spot of abrasive wear to the top edge of the rear board, in Very Good Dust Wrapper with some toning, wear to the spine ends, and a few edge tears. See photos Bx160