First edition, first printing. Signed by the author, Christopher Paul Carey. Original brown faux leather with gilt titles to the spine, in the Bob Eggleton illustrated dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, there is the slightest spotting to the top edge of the closed text block, the contents are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper. Not price-clipped ($65 on the rear flap).
Issued in a limited edition of 250 copies, this example is numbered 30 and signed by Christopher Paul Carey in black ink on the limitation page. An omnibus edition of José Farmer's two 'Opar' novels, along with the third in the trilogy, 'The Song of Kwasin', completed by Christopher Paul Carey from José Farmer's unfinished manuscript and published here for the first time. Carey had been given enthusiastic permission to complete the manuscript by Jose Farmer, who was able to read the final draft before his death in 2009.
Stock code: 27287
£80