Paperback edition of "Son of the Tree" from Jack Vance
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Seller: Richard Peterson-Bookseller, Kingston, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Both the book & the dust jacket are clean, bright & unmarked. Like new. This book is the First Trade Edition. limited to 480 copies, of 700 copies printed. Seller Inventory # 6278 (Box 286)
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. One of 480 unnumbered copies from an edition of 700. Hardcover, bound in cloth with dust jacket. Light edge-wear to the jacket. Seller Inventory # M20-Bas-R51
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Octavo, imitation leather. First hardcover edition. 711 copies printed of which this is one of 483 trade copies, this one signed by Vance on the title page. An early Vance story, first published in THRILLING WONDER STORIES, June 1951. Reworked into a novella published as half of an Ace Double in 1964. "The Druids of Kyril keep millions of peasants in subjection to the worship of a giant intelligent tree. Joe Smith from Earth gets involved in political maneuverings to draw them into alliance with the industrial society of the planet Mang. Routine early Vance, but colorful" (Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition [1995], p. 335). A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#153078). Seller Inventory # 153078