PAVANE

First Gollancz edition. Publisher's original navy blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, with a little rubbing to the extremities, and a small bump to the tail of the spine. The contents, with a closed tear to page 3, are clean throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the better than very good, rubbed and creased dustwrapper, which is lightly faded and marked to the spine. Not price-clipped (£8.95 net to the lower front flap).

An alternate-history fix-up novel composed of six interconnected short stories and a coda: 'The Lady Margaret', 'The Signaller', 'The White Boat', 'Brother John', 'Corfe Gate', 'Lords and Ladies', and 'Coda'. The earliest of these to appear in print was 'The Signaller', published in the science-fiction magazine 'Impulse' in 1966. The collection first appeared in book form two year later published by Rupert Hart-Davis, though that edition omitted 'The White Boat'. This Gollancz edition marks the first time the novel has been published in the UK in its complete form. A classic of science fiction.