Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World by Simon Welfare & John Fairley [FIRST EDITION / 1980] ww norton co The attached nameplate inside cover

The attached nameplate inside cover has name of orig

where the only real ambition is to perfect the art of "schlemihlhood

connected to the place and to each other

or any of the other giants-rather than the BFG-she would have soon become breakfast

I should have said

Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World by Simon Welfare & John Fairley [FIRST EDITION / 1980] ww norton co The attached nameplate inside coverArthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World by Simon Welfare & John Fairley FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING [1980] A & W PUBLISHERS INC Large hardcover w dust jacket in excellent condition. One small sealed tear to top edge of DJ. Otherwise in excellent shape with mild shelf wear. Book itself looks and reads like new. *Small embossed stamp from orig. owner on flyleaf page. Beyond the world we can quantify, classify and analyze there is another, more mysterious