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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. SIGNED, DATED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLUE PEN, ON HALF TITLE PAGE 'For F. C. Bawden who deserved it! with a fragment of the original rhubarb papyrus, from E. C. Large June 1956'. With an oblong fragment of 'rhubarb papyrus' still tipped in! Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine lightly browned, corners slightly rubbed, but overall jacket bright and fresh. Not price clipped (15s), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 282pp. Botanist and author Ernest Charles Large (1902-1976). In the adventurous satire 'Dawn in Andromeda', God sends a representative sample of humanity to an uninhabited planet by way of experiment. The political evolution of the community and the spontaneous regeneration of Religion confound the Utopian schemes of the original group but cannot suppress mechanical progress. The dedicatee F. C. Bawden (1908-72), was an expert on plants viruses. Extremely scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).