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Hardcover in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. Flat-signed by author on title-page. Stated first edition, first printing with full number line. The discovery there was life on Mars sixty-five million years ago couldn’t have happened at a worse time with the ultraconservative New Morality movement gaining control of the U.S. government and cutting off all aid to Mars. Carter Carleton, an anthropologist driven from his university post, is determined however to discover who the Martians were, even as politics and science clash. No previous ownership marks. No remainder mark. A pristine and as new copy. As new in an as new dust-jacket, now protected by new acetate covers. Signed by author.