Difference Engine by Gibson Sterling, First Edition (55 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 429pp. First Printing. Shelf wear, a couple small tears at rear bottom of Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. D5.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 19.95 G FM SCIFI - GIBSO T144. First Edition. FIRST Edition. Good hardcover book with dust jacket covered in clear, protective Brodart. GOOD - Collectible. Standard-sized.

Condition: FINE. First printing. Authors' first collaboration - a fantasy returning in time to the Victorian Age and the roots of our technological society - where the computer has arrived a century ahead of time with the perfection of Charles Babbage's Analytial Engine. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. The Difference Engine. Gibson, William; Sterling, Bruce. Bantam Books. 1991. First ed/first printing. 420. hardcover with dust jacket, dust jacket lightly bumped/scuffed/sunned spine, boards clean/square, binding tight, text clean/unmarked, NOT xlib, minor staining bottom page edge13.00.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 0-553-07028-2 | This book shows some minor signs of wear, but no tears, on either the binding or the paper.

Large Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition, First Printing. The book is very good+ with light edge wear.

Paperback. near fine trade paperback, Ian Miller cover 1st printing. Review slip. William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, two major SciFi powerhouses, joined forces to produce The Difference Engine, a classic steampunk novel.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Difference Engine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. a handsome copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by one author, Bruce Sterling 1855." Slight spotting on the bottom page edges. Signed by Author(s).

HARDCOVER. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo hc w/jacket in mylar, 429pp, signed by Gibson & Sterling, tight binding, clean throughout, clean boards with bright titles, touch of corner wear, Near Fine. Jacket is clean and colorful witha 3mm closed tear at bottom of spine, Very Good. Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Trade Sized Paperback. First Edition. Noted on front cover "ADVANCED READING COPY-NOT FOR SALE". Proof for the hardcover first edition. 435 pages. Red wrappers with gold lettering. AS NEW. Not read. All corners pointed. Binding tight, without stress creases and square. No tears, bumps, creases or chips. Not marked in any way and very clean, glossy and bright. All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo., 429pp. Beautiful First Edition, First Printing with full number sequence. Square, tight and clean throughout with t is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. A pretty collectable copy at great price.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First Edition, 1st printing. "In a surprising departure from the traditional view of cyberpunk's bleak future, Gibson and Sterling render with elan and colorful detail a scientifically advanced London, circa 1855, where computers ('Engines') have been developed. Fierce summer heat and pollution have driven out the ruling class, and ensuing anarchy allows the subversive, technology-hating Luddites to surface and battle the intellectual elite. Much of the problem centers on a set of perforated cards, once in the possession of an executed Luddite leader's daughter, later in the hands of 'Queen of Engines' Ada Byron (daughter of prime minister Lord Byron), finally given to Edward Mallory, a scientist. Mallory, who knows the cards are a gambling device that can be read with a specialized Engine, is soon threatened and libeled by the Luddites, and he and his associates confront the scoundrels in a violent showdown. An otherwise visionary, handsomely written, unsentimental tale that convincingly revises the 19th-century Western world." (Publishers Weekly) A pristine, clean & tight copy, unread & unmarked in AS NEW condition, quite presentable & collectible.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Flyleaf name-stamped (twice) else about fine in fine dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A ollaborative novel by the two well know science fiction writers. Inscribed by Sterling on the title page - "Repulic of Texas Solo Tour". Also "1855" is written below London at the bottom of the page with a square drawn around them. Light edge wear with a small closed tear at the top left of the spine. A very good copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition; First Printing. X + [438] pp.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 429 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Advance Reading Copy (ARC). SF novel by two of the progenitors of the cyber-punk "movement"t. VGF; slight color flaking along cover hinge.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. A fine first edition hardcover in a near fine dust jacket, full number line down to 1, no remainder marks, good straight tight bindings. Former owners inscription on inside front free end paper. Light bumping and wear to bottom corners of dust jacket, light wear to top edge of dust jacket. A lovely copy for a collector.

Condition: FINE. Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. ) The author's first novel, set in a dystopic near future, where cameras film your every move, published as a mass market paperback in the Bantam Spectra Special Edition series. This larger format advance edition also includes brief excerpts from Gibson and Sterling's THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE, Tepper's BEAUTY, and Dan Simmon's PRAYERS TO BROKEN STONES. SIGNED by William Gibson at the excerpt from his novel, 'The Difference Engine." 450 pp plus the additional selections. Fine in cream printed wrappers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A first edition, a first printing with full number line. Signed by Sterling on title page. A fine copy in a fine DJ, protected by a removable mylar cover. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. More available upon request. This book is in my possession and will be packed in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #101. Signed by Author(s).

Quarter Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good w/Protective Cover. First Edition, Signed. This first ediiton has very little corner bumping or edge wear. DJ unclipped with no edge wear or rubbing. Hinges and gutters are solid. Text is clean and tight in binding. Appears nearly new. This copy has been signed by Bruce Sterling on the title page. He also wrote "MANHATTAN COMMUNE" and squared New York with the date 1855. A very nice copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. G/G. Jacket in mylar. Light evidence of dampstaining to board edge, underside of jacket stained.

F/VG+. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES D.J. HAS A SHORT TEAR AT THE REAR TOP SPINE CORNER AND A SMALL BIT OF WEAR AT THE REAR PANEL'S BOTTOM FORE-EDGE CORNER. A VERY NICE COPY. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. Quarter burgundy cloth, burgundy paper boards. 429 pp. Fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First U.S. edition/printing. Book and jacket each in Fine condition. Inscribed by Gibson and signed by Sterling! " The book is a sustained work of Recursive SF - Benjamin Disraeli and characters from his work appear throughout - a Steampunk evocation of an Alternate History nineteenth-century UK whose Jonbar Point is the supposition that in about 1820 Charles Babbage succeeded in his attempt to construct the title's Computer. The world that explodes into reality as a consequence of Babbage's (and ultimately Ada Lovelace's) triumph is, in The Difference Engine, a cruel and polluted Dystopia, a land dominated by calculation, measurement and severely "practical" reason. Vast arterial roads ransack a choking London; huge masonical edifices house the new totalitarian bureaucracy which operates the Engines; and a conscious AI is a-borning. Though the book is at points unduly narrow in conception, and congested as a tale, its ultimate effect is very considerable." [JC] Encyclopedia of SF, Internet. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1991 Bantam Books hard cover - 1st edition 2nd printing - signed by both Gibson and Sterling on title page - some wear to dust jacket (1 inch tear and minor bubbling) - now in mylar cover - minor staining to page edge - otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean - enjoy. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. SIGNED by WILLIAM GIBSON on the Title page. Signature only First edition, First printing. Book is in Near Fine condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Fore edges have a tiny bit of shelf wear. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Near Fine condition. Not chipped or crinkled. Not price clipped. Dust Jacket is covered by Mylar Brodart. Thanks and Enjoy. All-Ways well boxed, All-Ways fast service. Thanks. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Octavo, boards. First edition. Perhaps the classic steampunk novel. A tale set in a filthy, polluted Victorian England running Babbage's hardware and ruled by Lord Byron who had escaped death in Greece. A 1991 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-442. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with 10 mm closed tear at upper rear spine fold. (#155834).