The Shadow of the Torturer (Signed Association Copy)
by WOLFE, Gene
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good ++/Near Fine
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1980. Bound in grey cloth over blue boards, stamped in gold in illustrated dust jacket by Don Maitz. This is the first volume in the author's Blood of the New Sun Series. Full page inscription on the obverse of the front free endpaper to a writer's agent, Lois, at the New Yorker. 303 pp. Downright rare in this protected conditon and with a long personal inscription. . Inscribed and Signed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Near Fine.
Synopsis
The Shadow of the Torturer is a science fiction novel by Gene Wolfe, first released in 1980. It is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. Wolfe completed the series (in draft form) before the Shadow of the Torturer was published.
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- Bookseller
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7000572
- Title
- The Shadow of the Torturer (Signed Association Copy)
- Author
- WOLFE, Gene
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good ++
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- The Blood of the New Sun; Series
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed; SCIFI; Addbooks95;
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