EMBASSYTOWN

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Presentation copy to fellow multi-award winning author Lavie Tidhar. Publisher's original black paper-covered boards with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. With an inscribed gift card loosely laid in. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh, with light bumping to the spine tips and to the extreme top edge of the lower board. The contents, with toning to the closed text block, are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper, that has a short closed tear to the base of the rear flap fold and to the base of the spine, and is otherwise without fading or loss. Not price-clipped (£17.99 to the lower front flap).

Signed by China Miéville on the title page. Loosely laid in is a card inscribed by the author in black ink "Hi Lavie - / Forgive me, I'm / not sure if you / like personalized things, / so have erred on the / side of safety & not / done so. Can easily / remedy later! / China". Winner of the 2012 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. The recipient, Lavie Tidhar is a multi-award winning Israeli-born writer known for blending various genres, such as literary fiction and detective fiction, with classic speculative fiction themes and devices.