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Jacket spine a little frayed at spine ends, scratch to front panel. Owner emboss.

pages clean, tight binding, gilt on cover and spine, dj price clipeed, previous owners signature on front end paper DATE PUBLISHED: 1985 EDITION: FIRST ED 295

1985. Nice Firm Clean copy! The dust jacket has some wear along the top and bottom edges and a few rips along the top spine edge. The front dust jacket flap states a price of $16.95. The copyright page states 'First trade edition'. 184 pages. 0416

First Trade edition. DJ in mylar cover. First ten or so pages have a red cherry stain less than a size of quarter. Last few pages have similar stains. Otherwise a fine copy with a black cloth quarter binding and grey boards. Turquoise end papers. No remainder marks and DJ is not price clipped. Square and tight.

Sturdy book, black cloth spine, gray boards, bright silver facsimile signature with asterik at bottom front right, silver lettering bright on spine, blue color inside covers and adjacent end papers, 295 pages. DJ glossy with blue sky illustrated on most of front, spine and back, darker blue of water with a sail ship on back, two albatrosses on front left, an iguana on back, with darker black along bottom front, spine and back. DJ has very tiny crease at bottom front edge near tip, very tiny light pin dents at front left. Very Good DJ/Very Fine book.

Thank you for supporting Earthlight Books and independent bookstores. Hard cover with DJ. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear to boards and DJ, some wear to edges of DJ. Clean, tight binding. First edition. First printing. Full number line and/or stated 1st edition.

Bit Of Sticker Residue On Front Of Dj. Mylar Cover. No Marks.

First trade edition, stated. The book is square and unmarked; corners sharp, spine ends lightly bumped; foxing to the top page edges. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $16.95); edgewear at spine ends and corners; Brodart protected.

Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1985. "First Trade Edition" stated, signifying the first (1st) printing, per publisher's stated policy. Near Fine+ in a Fine- Dust Jacket. Appears Unread. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind. The Binding is black quarter cloth to gray boards, the rear board of which has a dampstain, with bright silver design to the front board, bright silver title, etc., to spine, unmarked bright blue endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The Dust Jacket is bright and would be flawless but for a 3/8" tear to the top front panel, now discreetly closed from behind with archival (pH neutral) materials. The original price ($16.95) is intact on the front flap. See photos. 295 pages. 5 3/4" x 8 3/8". A satirical novel told from the point of view of a long dead ghost observing the evolution of humanity from the present for a million years after economic collapse, war and disease wipe out all but a few who made it to the Galapagos islands. ISBN 10: 0385294166 / ISBN 13: 9780385294164

First trade edition stated first printing of a fine hardcover in a near fine dustjacket with a small nick on the front cover, minor wear at the top front corner. Set in the Galapalos Islands, after a global financial disaster, the novel questions the human brain from an evolutionary perspective. Finished 2nd for the 1986 John W. Campbell Memorial Sci-Fi Award