Description:
The Dying Earth by Jack Vance (author of the Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga, Lyonesse series, etc.) First Hardcover Edition - First Printing San Francisco: Underwood-Miller, 1976. Illustrated by George Barr with wrap-around dust jacket art, one of the best from the 1970's, map end-papers, two-page art spread title page, and 11 further full-page plates. Limited to 1111 copies, 111 copies were signed by both contributors. This is one of the remaining 1000 unsigned copies. The author's first novel, originally published in 1950 as a paperback original by Hillman Periodicals.Fine- in Fine Dust jacket, a near-perfect copy save just a tiny hint it may have been read, very slight aging to the text-block, and just a hint of shelf-wear to the bottom spine, else still a beautiful copy.
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