SERVANTS OF THE WANKH. Tschai. Book II.

First Underwood-Miller Press clothbound edition. Limited edition. Signed by the author and illustrator. Publisher's original grey cloth with titles in light blue to the spine and upper board, with colour illustration by David Ireland to the upper board. With a tipped colour frontispiece by David Ireland, and five black and white plates throughout the text by David Ireland, Joe Pearson, and James Schull. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with light rubbing to the tail of the spine, the cloth bright and fresh. Mild spotting to the top edge of the text block. The contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps.

Issued in an edition of 111 copies, from which this example is numbered 94, and signed by the author Jack Vance and illustrator David Ireland in black ink on the limitation page. The second book in Vance's 'Planet of Adventure' series, relating the adventures of Adam Reith, sole survivor of an Earth ship investigating a signal from the distant planet Tschai. Although the novels are thematically linked, each is a self-contained story. When the series was included in the 44 volume Integral Edition of Vance's works (1999-2006), the editors altered the title of the second volume to 'The Wannek'. The author was persuaded to make the change upon learning the meaning of the phonetically identical British demotic term (the offending word was replaced throughout the text).