THE EMPRESS OF MARS

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author and illustrator. Original blue cloth with bronze foil titles to the spine, in the J. K. Potter illustrated dustwrapper. With two black and white illustrations by Potter. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions, with the faintest hint of spotting to the closed text-block edge. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper. Not price-clipped ($60 on the front flap).

Issued in a limited edition of 488 copies, this example is numbered 51 and signed by Kage Baker and J. K. Potter on the limitation page. A reworking and novel-length expansion of a Hugo and Nebula nominated 2003 novella about a future colonised Mars. This special Subterranean Press edition precedes the Tor trade edition.