First edition. Trade edition. Publisher's original grey cloth with gold titles to the spine, in the Tom Kidd illustrated dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth clean and bright. The contents, with a few spots to the top edge of the closed text block, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the fine dustwrapper which is free from fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped ($45 to the front flap).
'Magic Highways' is the third volume in 'The Early Jack Vance' series and was issued in a trade edition (as here) and an edition of 26 lettered copies signed by Jack Vance, housed in a traycase. Comprising of 16 stories including 'Phalid's Fate', 'Planet of Black Dust', 'Dead Ahead', 'The Ten Books', 'The Uninhibited Robot', 'Dover Spargill's Ghastly Floater', 'The Visitors', 'Sabotage on Sulfur Planet', 'The House Lords', 'Sanatoris Short-cut', 'The Unspeakable McInch', 'The Sub-Standard Sardines', 'The Howling Bounders', 'The King of Thieves', 'The Spa of the Stars' and 'To B or Not to C or to D'.
Stock code: 27784
£75