Conditionally Human

New York, NY: Ballantine Books. Very Good. 1962. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Cover Art; This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. This is Ballantine Books number F-626, priced at .50cents. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. There is some light fading / to a strip of the front foredge of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper. "Between 1951 and 1957, Miller published over three dozen science fiction short stories, winning a Hugo Award in 1955 for the story "The Darfsteller". He also wrote scripts for the television show Captain Video in 1953. Late in the 1950s, Miller assembled a novel from three closely related novellas he had published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1955, 1956 and 1957. The novel, entitled A Canticle for Leibowitz, was published in 1959. It is a post-apocalyptic novel revolving around the canonisation of Saint Leibowitz, and is considered a masterpiece of the genre. It won the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel." (from Wikipedia) .