THE ARCHITECT OF SLEEP

First hardcover edition. Limited edition. Signed by the author and the illustrator. Publisher's original black cloth with silver titles to the spine, with raccoon illustration in blind to the upper board, in the Brenoch Adams wraparound-illustrated dustwrapper. Bronze satin bookmark. With illustrated endpapers by David Ho and a double-page title illustration in colour by Jim Gurney. With 10 black and white plates by Cristina Bencina throughout. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the very lightly rubbed dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears.

Issued in an edition of 400 copies, from which this example is numbered 347, and signed by the author Steven R. Boyett and by the illustrators Cristina Bencina, Brenoch Adams, and David Ho in blue and black ink, respectively, on the colophon. A science fiction novel set in a parallel world where the predominant intelligent life form evolved not from apes, but from raccoons. First published as a paperback original by Ace Books in 1986. Nominated for the 1987 Locus Award for 'Best SF Novel'.