OF SPACE/TIME AND THE RIVER

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author and illustrator. Bound by Carol Joyce binding in tan Italian cotton cloth and handmade Egyptian papyrus, with blue titles incorporated into a design constructed on the upper board. With frontispiece, title page and limitation page illustrations by Judy J. King-Rieniets. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean and bright throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Housed in the original cloth-covered solander box with a blue title label to the spine.

Issued in a limited edition of 51 copies (from a total edition of 177), this example is numbered 45 and is signed by Gregory Benford and Judy J. King-Rieniets opposite the limitation page. A science fiction story that experiments with the boundaries of physics and the nature of time.