NOVA

First UK edition, first printing. Association copy. Signed by the author for fellow science fiction author Brian Stableford. Publisher's original burgundy cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some bumping to the spine tips, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The edges of the text block, especially the top edge are toned and spotted, the contents are otherwise clean throughout, and other than the author's, without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper that is nicked to the laminate at the spine tips. Not price-clipped (30s net to the lower front flap).

Inscribed by the author in black ink on the dedication page "To Brian Stapleford / from / Samuel R. Delany / Oslo '89". First published in the United States in 1968 by Doubleday and nominated for the Hugo Award in 1969, the first UK edition is notably scarce, particularly so when signed, and as in this example, with a meaningful author-to-author association.