ISBN10: 0803777396, ISBN13: 9780803777392, [publisher: Dial Press] Hardcover First Edition First printing, signed by Joan Vinge at the title page. 536 pages. Navy quarter-cloth with silver spine titles over pale blue papered boards; very good, with slight fading along top and bottom edges, light bumping to spine head and top fore-edge corner of front panel. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket very good in Mylar with light edgewear. Text clean and bright, free of markings.
[Salem, OR, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1980]

ISBN10: 0803777396, ISBN13: 9780803777392, [publisher: Dial Press] Hardcover
[Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1980]

ISBN10: 0803777396, ISBN13: 9780803777392, [publisher: Dial Press, New York] Hardcover First Edition 536 Pp. Dark Blue Boards Stamped In Silver, Light Blue Paper Boards. Inscribed By The Author Ar Ziesing Brothers, July 19, 1980. Fine Book, Never Read Or Used, Fading To Boards Just On Top And Bottom Edges, Dust Jacket Not Priced Clipped And Completely Unworn, Pristine, In Dust Jacket Protector Since New. Hugo Award 1980.
[Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1980]

Brand: Dial Press, 0000-00-00. First Edition. hardcover. Used:Good. Brand: Dial Press ISBN 0803777396 9780803777392 [US]

New York: Dial Press, Date: 1980. First edition, first printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very good plus. Hugo Award winner 1981 for best novel. Dust jacket illustration by Leo and Diane Dillon. The usual light fade to the extreme edges of the boards. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. 1980. Dial Press ISBN 0803777396 9780803777392 [US]

ISBN10: 0803777396, ISBN13: 9780803777392, [publisher: Dial Press, New York] Hardcover Hugo Award winner 1981 for best novel. Dust jacket illustration by Leo and Diane Dillon. The usual light fade to the extreme edges of the boards. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.
[Talent, OR, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1980]
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ISBN10: 0803777396, ISBN13: 9780803777392, [publisher: The Dial Press, New York] Hardcover First Edition Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Presentation copy with inscription by Vinge signed "Joan" to "David" on title page. "On a world of long, slow seasons, the winter queen tries to perpetuate her rule into the summer by means of cloning and other off-world technologies. A large and elaborate planetary romance ." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 333. "A colorful amalgam of SF and heroic fantasy borrowing the structure of Hans Christian Andersen's famous story, set on a barbarian world exploited by technologically superior outworlders, against the background of a fallen galactic empire. The convoluted plot makes heavy use of ideas drawn from Robert Graves's classic THE WHITE GODDESS (1948). - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1189. Winner of the 1981 Hugo award for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1189. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with touch of rubbing to black background ink on rear panel. (#110715)
[Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1980]