Big Planet
by Jack Vance
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/as new
- Seller
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Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Big Planet by Jack Vance, Underwood-Miller Books, 1978, first edition, limited to 1000 copies, 236 pages. Dust jacket art and interior illustrations by Stephen Hickman. Book and BroDart-protected dust jacket are almost new.
Synopsis
Big Planet is the first of two stand-alone science fiction novels by Jack Vance (the other being Showboat World) which share the same setting: an immense, but metal-poor and backward world called Big Planet. Big Planet was serialized in 1952 in Startling Stories, then cut and reissued in 1957 by Avalon Books It was later issued as part of Ace double novel D-295, paired with Vance's Slaves of the Klau. It was further cut in 1958. The text was restored in 1978.
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- Bookseller
- F&SF Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- hc0403
- Title
- Big Planet
- Author
- Jack Vance
- Illustrator
- Stephen Hickman
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- as new
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Underwood-Miller
- Date Published
- 1978
- Pages
- 236
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- SF HC;
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