Notes
The City and the Stars, a novel by Arthur C. Clarke.

First published in a shorter form as Against the Fall of Night in Startling Stories (November 1948 issue), the novella was then revised and expanded for publication as a novel of the same title in 1953.

A further revised and expanded version was published as The City and the Stars in 1956.

Against the Fall of Night was reissued in 1990 with Beyond the Fall of Night, a sequel by Gregory Benford.

The image opposite and the blurb below are from the 16th printing of the 1957 Signet paperback edition. Cover illustrator unknown.

Publisher’s Blurb – Lower Cover
HE WAS THE FIRST CHILD TO BE BORN ON EARTH FOR AT LEAST TEN MILLION YEARS . . .
and because he was so different from the others in the city, he set out to prove what they all denied that life existed outside their fabulous metropolis, and that man could survive in the mysterious outer world. And so the last adventurer left the city to find the stars . . .