The jackets are wrapped in Mylar, and additional images of the set are available upon request. The white jacket also has a few faint smudges to its covers, and a small spot to the front. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight, clean Very Good two volume set in like, unclipped dust jackets, which both have light bumps with minor creasing to their spine ends and corners, and mild rubbing with a touch of edge wear to the covers. Additionally, the book in the white jacket has a short crease to the upper corner of its text block. Both of the books have a slight skew to their binding, moderate bumps to their spine ends and cover corners, and a hint of rubbing with some mild edge wear to their covers. Two volume hardcover set in complimentary white/black jackets that make up a set, both books are signed by Gaiman, and the copy in the white jacket is a first printing, while the book in the black jacket is a third printing. All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. SIGNED by over 50 authors - Signed by Jack Vance and Jim butcher on Half Title, the others signed on their pictures: Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, George R R Martin, Charles de Lint, Anne McCaffrey, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, PC Hodgell, Tad Williams, Delia Sherman, R A Salvatore, Raymond Feist, John Crowley, Melanie Rawn, Emma Bull, Mercedes Lackey, Phyllis Eisentstin, Peter Beagke, Ellen Kushner, Elizabeth Moon, Teerry Goodkind, Diane Duane, Peter Morwood, James Blaylock, C J Cherryh, Harry Harrison, Judith Tarr, Jane Yolen, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Will Shetterly, Patricia Wrede, Tracy Hickman, Lisa Goldstein, Gene Wolfe, Diana Paxson, Terry Brooks Esther Friesner, Jane Fancher, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Barbara Hambly. My thanks to Colin Smythe for this information. The first hardcover edition of this title published in the US. Martin's Press intended to issue the US edition of Pratchett's novel but Colin Smythe declined their offer for subsidiary rights and granted Doubleday's Science Fiction Book Club license to publish a book club edition. This is one of the Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club copies.The code "11154" printed on the rear panel of the dustjacket, "Book Club Edition" printed on lower corner of front flap, no ISBN, code "R32" printed on p188 and "First published in 1986 by Colin Smythe Limited Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire" and "Printed in the United States of America" on the copyright page. Bright, tight copy in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Upper board corners tapped and dustjacket bottom corner just touched (not immediately apparent).
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