'THE UNIVERSE MAKER' AND 'THE PROXY INTELLIGENCE'

First omnibus edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Review copy, with the publisher's review slip loosely laid in. Original navy cloth with silver titles to the spine, in the David Hardy illustrated dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the spine tips ever so slightly bumped. There is some spotting to the closed text-block edge, the early pages and occasionally to the margins, and some light offsetting and spotting where the review slip is loosely laid in at pages 152 and 153. The contents are otherwise clean and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper. Repriced by the publisher with a label over the original price on the lower front flap.

Inscribed by A. E. Van Vogt in black ink on the title page "For Brian Stableford / All best wishes / A. E. Van Vogt". The recipient is the award-winning science fiction writer, scholar and critic Brian Stableford. An omnibus edition of the science fiction novel 'The Universe Maker', first published by Ace Books in 1953 and the novella 'The Proxy intelligence', first published in If Magazine in 1963.