MAYFLOWER II

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author and Adam Roberts. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Edward Miller illustrated dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh, with just a little rubbing to the spine tips. The contents, with a touch of spotting to the fore-edge of the rear endpaper, are otherwise clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed and creased dustwrapper, which is lightly marked to the panel edges, and is otherwise without fading, loss, or tears. Not price-clipped.

Issued in an edition of 300 copies of which this example is numbered 79 and signed by the author Stephen Baxter and author of the introduction Adam Roberts in blue and black ink, respectively, on the limitation page. The ninth book in Baxter's hard science fiction universe, the 'Xeelee Sequence'. Winner of the 2005 British Science Fiction Association Award for 'short fiction'.