CONSIDER PHLEBAS

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original yellow cloth with black titles to the spine, in the Richard Hopkinson illustrated dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with the unavoidable light toning to the paper-stock, and a few tiny foxing spots to the fore-edge are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper that has a light marks to the flap edges and is otherwise without fading, loss or tears. Issued without a barcode to the lower rear panel and without a publisher's price to the lower front flap (for export).

The author's first published science-fiction novel and the first book in the Culture series.