First edition. Limited edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Ilene Meyer illustrated dustwrapper. Housed in the tan cloth slipcase. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. With the very lightly rubbed dustwrapper, which is free from fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped ($29.95 to the front flap). Complete with the structurally sound slipcase.
Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies of which this example is numbered 88 and signed by Jack Vance in black ink on the limitation page. A collection of five novellas, including 'Chateau D'If', 'Gift of Gab', 'Rumfuddle', 'Abercrombie Station' and its sequel 'Cholwell's Chickens'.
Stock code: 27477
£125
Novato, California / Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller.
1990