NOVA

First Centipede Press edition. Limited edition. Publisher's original black cloth with red and white titles to the spine and illustration to the boards, in the Piotr Jablonski illustrated dustwrapper. Housed in the black and red cloth slipcase. Illustrated throughout with endpaper artwork and four full page colour plates by Piotr Jablonski and numerous black an white in-text tarot card illustrations by Russell Fitzgerald. Top edge red. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. With the fine original dustwrapper which is free from fading, loss or tears. Complete with the fine, structurally sound slipcase.

This example one of a limited edition of 80 unsigned copies. There was an additional edition of 300 copies signed by the author Samuel R. Delany, illustrator Piotr Jablonski and author of the introduction Lavelle Porter. Originally published in 1968 by Doubleday, 'Nova' was nominated for the 1969 Hugo Award for 'Best Novel'.