Brian Aldiss — The Male Response

London, Dennis Dobson, 1963 . First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of Brian Aldiss's satirical and controversial novel about post-colonial Africa. The first UK edition, first impression. This novel was first published two years earlier as a paperback in the US. This UK edition is the first hardcover edition.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Soames Noyes is sent to oversee the installation of a computer in Umbalathorp, the capital city of the New African Republic of Goya. Whilst there, he experiences the strangeness of a new way of living and is caught up in a conspiracy to overthrow the government.The book was banned in South Africa. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Spotting to text block fore edge. Closed tear to dust wrapper front wrap tail. Light sunning to back strip, minot loss to back strip head. Light handling marks to rear wrap. Two small closed tears to head of rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with instances of light spotting to page perimeters of first and last few leaves. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Near Fine.