Limited edition. Signed by the author. Original muted red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Ned Dameron illustrated dustwrapper and navy cloth-covered slipcase. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth clean and fresh, the contents clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped ($60 on the front flap). Housed the near fine original slipcase that is a touch rubbed at the corners.
Issued in a limited edition of 500, this example is numbered 93 and signed by Jack Vance on the limitation page. An attractive deluxe issue of Vance's classic science fiction novel about a seemingly utopian, far-future society in which immortality has been achieved but is strictly and unethically controlled to avoid overpopulation. First published in 1956 by Ballantine Books.
Stock code: 29378
£100