THE DIAMOND AGE, Or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer.

Limited edition. Signed by the author. Publisher's original brown and cream speckled cloth with bronze titles to the spine, in the Patrick Arrasmith illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Complete with the original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears and housed in the fine, purple cloth slipcase with titles in gilt to the backstrip and side.

Issued in a limited edition of 500 copies of which this example is numbered 46 and signed by Neal Stephenson in blue ink on the limitation page. There was a simultaneous edition of 26 lettered copies. A seminal work of science-fiction, first published by Bantam Books in 1995, 'The Diamond Age' won both the 1996 Hugo and Locus Awards and was nominated for the 1995 Nebula.