AN ORNAMENT TO HIS PROFESSION

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Original navy paper-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, in the James Stanley Daugherty illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the original dustwrapper that has some very slight creasing to the head of the spine and flap folds. Not price-clipped ($25.00 on the front flap).

Signed by Charles L. Harness on the title page. A collection of 17 short works by Harness, a versatile and complex science fiction writer who also worked as an attorney and held degrees in chemistry and law. Featuring titles that originally appeared in science fiction magazines between 1948 and 1994, along with one story, 'Lethary Fair', that appears here for the first time.