First hardcover edition, first printing. Limited edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's original brown rexine with an illustration stamped in silver to the upper board and silver titles to the spine, in the Les Edwards illustrated dustwrapper and slipcase. All edges silver. Marbled endpapers. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is free from fading, loss or tears. Housed in the fine, structurally sound slipcase.
Issued in a limited edition of 150 copies, of which this example is numbered 041 and signed by Ian Macdonald in black ink on the limitation page. The first hardcover edition of the author's debut novel that was first published as a paperback original by Bantam in 1988. It won the 1989 Locus Award for best first novel and was also nominated for an Arthur C. Clarke Award.
Stock code: 26738
£80