A STAINLESS STEEL RAT IS BORN

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Original silver faux leather with black titles to the spine, housed in a matching slipcase. With a black and white tipped-in frontispiece illustration plate by John Bolton. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean and bright throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed, structurally sound slipcase.

Issued in a limited edition of 250 copies, this example is numbered 132 and is signed by the author in black ink on the limitation page. A science fiction novel revealing the origins of the roguish professional criminal known as The Stainless Steel Rat. It is the sixth published 'Stainless Steel Rat' book, and the earliest in the series' chronology.