THE CITADEL OF THE AUTARCH. Volume Four of The Book of the New Sun.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Original quarter black cloth over yellow paper-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, in the Don Maitz illustrated dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight with a couple of tiny indentations to the bottom edge of the boards. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked, price-clipped dustwrapper that is otherwise bright and without loss or tears.

Inscribed by Gene Wolfe in blue ink on the title page "To Kim Rosser / Gene Wolfe". The fourth and final novel in Wolfe's original 'The Book of the New Sun' science fantasy series about a professional torturer who is exiled for showing mercy to one of his charges. Wolfe published a separate 'coda' novel 'The Urth of the New Sun' in 1987 which continued and completed the story.