First Folio Society edition, first printing and first edition with these illustrations. Publisher's original grey cloth with silver titles to the spine and wrap around illustration in blue, red and white. Housed in the original slipcase. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eight full page colour plates by Donato Giancola. Printed on Abbey Wove paper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine, structurally sound slipcase.
The novel was first published in a shorter book form in America by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1961. The text of this edition follows that of the full-length version, first published in Great Britain by New English Library in 1991, with minor emendations. Winner of the 1962 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Stock code: 26506
£175