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London, Grafton. Date: 1991. First edition hardcover.Baxter's first novel.The book is in very good condition with tight square binding, but pages are tanned and the text block edges are foxed. The lower edge has a remainder mark (a faint star). 1991. Grafton ISBN 0246137061 9780246137067 [AU]
Grafton Books, London, Date: 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Chris Moore -- Cover Art. intentionally, acknowledgements. Blue coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Minor rubbing to the lower book edges and slight bumping to the top backstrip corners. Faint discolouration to the lower back strip edge. A small mark halfway down the front book panel, closest to the backstrip. Very light age toning and marking to the top text block edge. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, by Chris Moore, with white and blue titles to the front panel and white and red titles to the backstrip. Minor rubbing and creasing to the dustwrapper edges and dustwrapper panels. Fading to the backstrip. In a world where the survivors of a spaceship survive precariously in two different groups, one group, ".. the miners, live on the Belt, a ramshackle ring of dwellings orbiting the iron core of a dead star, which they excavate for raw materials. These can be traded for food from the Raft, a structure built from the wreckage of the ship, on which a small group of scientists preserve ancient knowledge which makes survival possible. Rees is a Miner whose curiosity about his world makes him stow away on a flying tree -- just one of the many strange local life forms -- carrying trade between Belt and the Raft. Accepted as an apprentice scientist, he learns that their world is dying, and that in order to leave the survivors must c ...
ISBN10: 0246137061, ISBN13: 9780246137067, [publisher: Grafton Books, London] Hardcover First Edition intentionally, acknowledgements. Blue coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Minor rubbing to the lower book edges and slight bumping to the top backstrip corners. Faint discolouration to the lower back strip edge. A small mark halfway down the front book panel, closest to the backstrip. Very light age toning and marking to the top text block edge. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, by Chris Moore, with white and blue titles to the front panel and white and red titles to the backstrip. Minor rubbing and creasing to the dustwrapper edges and dustwrapper panels. Fading to the backstrip. In a world where the survivors of a spaceship survive precariously in two different groups, one group, ". the miners, live on the Belt, a ramshackle ring of dwellings orbiting the iron core of a dead star, which they excavate for raw materials. These can be traded for food from the Raft, a structure built from the wreckage of the ship, on which a small group of scientists preserve ancient knowledge which makes survival possible. Rees is a Miner whose curiosity about his world makes him stow away on a flying tree -- just one of the many strange local life forms -- carrying trade between Belt and the Raft. Accepted as an apprentice scientist, he learns that their world is dying, and that in order to leave the survivors must contemplate a journey even more perilous and fantas ...
ISBN10: 0246137061, ISBN13: 9780246137067, [publisher: GraftonBooks A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers, [London]] Hardcover First Edition Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Baxter to "David" on the title page. The author's well-received first book. ". RAFT features some of the most startling hard SF content in recent years. It is the first volume in the author's loosely connected Xeelee future history." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-84. "Humans are stranded on a 'raft' in a pocket universe of enormous gravity. Baxter's debut novel, in which he describes his young hero's quest through a world that is strange indeed. As an all-too-rare example of British SF rooted in speculative physics, it has drawn praise from Larry Niven, Bob Shaw and others." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [296]. "It is very, very hard SF, and it's great fun, and the cosmogonic precepts of its universe are challenging to grasp, and it's quite quickly told, and it's really dumb about people." - John Clute. Slight spine lean, a nearly fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with some general rubbing and scuffing, but no loss of color. (#141696) [Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1991] ...
First Edition with the complete number line; a near fine book in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed and dated by the author on the title page. Author's first book. This volume is in near fine condition with mild shelf wear to both spine ends and a very slight lean to the book; housed in a fine dust jacket that shows only a very mild rubbing at the corners. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-lib; a clean, bright, and tight copy protected in a mylar cover. Date: 1991. Grafton ISBN 0246137061 US
First Edition with the complete number line; a near fine book in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed and dated by the author on the title page. Author's first book. This volume is in near fine condition with mild shelf wear to both spine ends and a very slight lean to the book; housed in a fine dust jacket that shows only a very mild rubbing at the corners. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-lib; a clean, bright, and tight copy protected in a mylar cover. Date: 1991. Grafton ISBN 0246137061 9780246137067 [US]
ISBN10: 0246137061, ISBN13: 9780246137067, [publisher: Grafton] Hardcover First Edition First Edition with the complete number line; a near fine book in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed and dated by the author on the title page. Author's first book. This volume is in near fine condition with mild shelf wear to both spine ends and a very slight lean to the book; housed in a fine dust jacket that shows only a very mild rubbing at the corners. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-lib; a clean, bright, and tight copy protected in a mylar cover. [Tomball, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1991]
ISBN10: 0246137061, ISBN13: 9780246137067, [publisher: Grafton 1991 First Edition First Printing] Hardcover First Edition Grafton 1991 First Edition First Printing Bruised at top and slightly bumped at base of spine else Fine book in like Dust Jacket Signed, located and dated by the Author on the Title Page (1995 - and more of a signature than usual!) & with Publisher's Review Slip ''Imagine a universe where the force of gravity is one billion times as strong as the gravity we know. Human beings have detectable gravity fields. Stars are only about a mile across, and burn out within a year of their formation. '' [Ilford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1991]
ISBN10: 0246137061, ISBN13: 9780246137067, [publisher: Grafton Books] Hardcover First Edition "Raft" by Stephen Baxter. Published by Grafton in 1991. SINGED (SIGNATURE ONLY) ON THE TILE PAGE. The book and dust jacket are in fine condition and have never been read. First printing of the first edition hardcover (a beautiful copy). Now protected in a removable archival quality mylar sleeve. Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence finally enters the SF Masterwork series! A spaceship from Earth accidentally crossed through a hole in space-time to a universe where the force of gravity is one billion times as strong as the gravity we know. Somehow the crew survived, aided by the fact that they emerged into a cloud of gas surrounding a black hole, which provided a breathable atmosphere. Five hundred years later, their descendants still struggle for existence, divided into two main groups. The Miners live on the Belt, a ramshackle ring of dwellings orbiting the core of a dead star, which they excavate for raw materials. These can be traded for food from the Raft, a structure built from the wreckage of the ship, on which a small group of scientists preserve the ancient knowledge which makes survival possible. Rees is a Miner whose curiosity about his world makes him stow away on a flying tree - just one of the many strange local lifeforms - carrying trade between the Belt and the Raft. And what he finds wil ...
ISBN10: 0246137061, ISBN13: 9780246137067, [publisher: GraftonBooks A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers, [London]] Hardcover First Edition Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Baxter to "Frank" on the title page. The author's well-received first book. ". RAFT features some of the most startling hard SF content in recent years. It is the first volume in the author's loosely connected Xeelee future history." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-84. "Humans are stranded on a 'raft' in a pocket universe of enormous gravity. Baxter's debut novel, in which he describes his young hero's quest through a world that is strange indeed. As an all-too-rare example of British SF rooted in speculative physics, it has drawn praise from Larry Niven, Bob Shaw and others." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. [296]. "It is very, very hard SF, and it's great fun, and the cosmogonic precepts of its universe are challenging to grasp, and it's quite quickly told, and it's really dumb about people." - John Clute. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#138840) [Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1991] ...
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