Loren Eiseley. First edition, first printing. Dust Jacket: Very Good. An unclipped jacket with original price ($6.95) still intact. Two small chips on top of spine with some foxing inside. Author photo on rear jacket by Frank Ross. Hardcover: Near Fine. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970 (A-10.70 H). Yellow cloth with black lettering on the spine. No markings or writing in the book, 173 pp. Includes woodcut illustrations by Walter Ferro.
The author, a distinguished naturalist and conservationist, writes about his views of the Space Age in this unique book, the first humanistic account of the rocket century. He charges that the wealth and inventive genius being poured into the Space Age constitutes a public sacrifice equivalent to the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza almost 5,000 years ago.
