New York: Ace Books, Inc., [1956]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace Double Novel Books D-150. Future authoritarian dystopia. "The eponymous Jones is an unhappy dictator who can foresee the future, by exactly one year. Its author's second novel from the period before he had come into his full powers." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction (1995), p. 427. "A spectacular, brim-full grab bag of ideas." - Damon Knight. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 260.