CLARKE, Arthur C. (1917?2008). Islands in the Sky. Philadelphia and Toronto: John C. Winston Company, [1952]. 8vo. Original dark?blue cloth, illustrated endpapers; original price?clipped dust jacket (light edge chipping or wear, some faint dampstaining near lower edge). FIRST EDITION of an early work by Clarke, part of the Winston Science Fiction series for juvenile readers. ?As his prize for winning a television quiz show in the second half of the twenty-first century, Roy Malcolm goes to an orbiting space station. There he has several adventures involving space pirates, the making of a space film, and a runaway rocket ship...As an adventure story, routine; as an investigation into the required technology necessary for space travel, exceptional? (Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 5-23). Currey, p. 114.