First UK edition and first hardcover edition. Publisher's original dark blue cloth with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with a small 'Foyles' paper label to the lower left corner of the front pastedown, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (30s / £1.50 net to the lower front flap).
A Nebula nominated science fiction novel, first published in America in 1968 as a paperback original under the title 'The Masks of Time'. This British issue is the first edition in hardcover.
Stock code: 28254
£50