SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH:STORIES IN HONOR OF JACK VANCE

First edition, first printing. Lettered issue, one of 26 copies. Signed by the authors. Publisher's original brown faux 'leather' with metallic pink titles to the spine, in the Tom Kidd illustrated dustwrapper. With the burgandy cloth traycase. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the boards and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Housed in the structurally sound traycase that has a light bump to one corner.

Issued in a limited edition of 26 lettered copies, this example is lettered D and signed by the 24 contributors and the multi-award winning author whom this collection honours, Jack Vance. There was also an edition of 500 numbered and signed copies in a slipcase. A stellar anthology featuring 22 original stories set in the far future of Grand Master Jack Vance's 1950 classic The Dying Earth, wherein sorcerers, rogues and demons squabble for power beneath the waning light of a bloated red sun.