Contact by Carl Sagan [FIRST EDITION] 1985 • Simon & Schuster

Contact by Carl Sagan

FIRST EDITION [1985] SIMON & SCHUSTER

7th printing.  Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. 

Dust jacket is in great shape; some color-drain to spine and mild edge and rub wear.  Now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector!

Book itself is in beautiful shape.  Small pub. mark on bottom of text block.  Reads beautifully with some tanning. 

Winner of the 1986 Locus Award for Best First Novel and inspiration for the classic film starring Jodie Foster.

At first it seemed impossible - a radio signal that came not from Earth but from far beyond the nearest stars. But then the signal was translated, and what had been impossible became terrifying. For the signal contains the information to build a Machine that can travel to the stars. A Machine that can take a human to meet those that sent the message. They are eager to meet us: they have been watching and waiting for a long time. And now they will judge.