The Star Trek Reader IV (First Edition)

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1978. First edition. First printing (with full number line including the 1). Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A tight, clean, extremely fresh copy. Publisher's original price intact on front jacket flap ($9.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Octavo, 472 pages. Quarter black cloth over purple paper-covered boards, with silver spine lettering. THE STAR TREK READER IV collects twelve short stories adapted by James Blish from Star Trek television episodes created by Gene Roddenberry. The stories include "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", "The Squire of Gothos," "Wink of an Eye," "Bread and Circuses," "Day of the Dove," "Plato's Stepchildren," and others. Blish (1921-1975) was a Hugo Award-winning science fiction author and critic best known for his Cities in Flight novels and for pioneering the prose adaptations of Star Trek. This was the concluding volume in the four-volume Star Trek Reader omnibus series, following The Star Trek Reader (1976), The Star Trek Reader II (1976), and The Star Trek Reader III (1977). The four Dutton hardcovers reprinted in sequence the twelve original Bantam paperback collections: Star Trek 1 (1967), Star Trek 2 (1968), Star Trek 3 (1969), Star Trek 4 (1971), Star Trek 5 (1972), Star Trek 6 (1972), Star Trek 7 (1972), Star Trek 8 (1972), Star Trek 9 (1973), Star Trek 10 (1974), Star Trek 11 (1975), and Star Trek 12 (1977). The present volume thus marks both the end of the Reader omnibus sequence and the culmination of Blish’s pioneering effort to translate the Star Trek universe from screen to prose, a feat that laid the foundation for decades of franchise fiction to follow.…