THE BEST OF LARRY NIVEN

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original light blue cloth with metallic green titles to the spine, in the Edward Miller illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh, ever so lightly rubbed to the spine tips. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. The text block is very lightly flecked to the top edge and has a small mark to the bottom edge. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper, which is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped ($40 to the upper front flap).

A collection of 27 stories written over a period of 35 years including Becalmed in Hell; Bordered in Black; Neutron Star; The Soft Weapon; The Jigsaw Man; The Deadlier Weapon; All the Myriad Ways; Not Long Before the End; Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex; Inconstant Moon; Rammer; Cloak of Anarchy; The Fourth Profession; Flash Crowd; The Defenceless Dead; The Flight of the Horse; The Hole Man; Night On Mispec Moor; Flatlander; The Magic Goes Away; Cautionary Tales; Limits; A Teardrop Falls; The Return of William Proxmire; The Borderland of Sol; Smut Talk; The Missing Mass.