Talent by Jack Mcdevitt, First Edition (15 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Cover Art Darrell K. Sweet (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. Everyone knew the legend of Christopher Sim: fighter, leader and an interstellar hero with a rare talent for war. But now, Alex Benedict has found a startling bit of information, long buried in an ancient computer file. If it is true, then Christopher Sim was a fraud. Wear at edges, spine creased, reading creases, rubbed. Size: 4 1/4" x 6 3/4". PAPERBACK.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by the author with personalized inscription. TU2.

Darrell K Sweet (illustrator). A Talent for War by Jack McDevitt, Ace 79553, 1989, paperback original. Cover art by Darrell K Sweet. Bright, square and tight; nearly new.

Paperback. first edition. very good - fine, spine crease paperback,

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Light reading creases and shelf wear, some foxing to inside covers and edges of reading block. ; Paperback original, first printing with full number line, February 1989. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover art by Darrell K. Sweet. ; The Alex Benedict Series; Vol. 1; 320 pages; For the sake of history and in memory of his uncle, Alex Benedict must follow the dark track of a human legend, Christopher Sim, into the very heart of an alien galaxy, to confront a truth far stranger than fiction. Mass Market PB.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st Printing. Book 1 in the Alex Benedict series. Darrell K. Sweet cover art. A sharp like-new copy of the true first printing. Rather scarce.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 165 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed/1st pr, SIGNED by the author on the title page. This book is square, solid, and plausibly unread; the boards are solid and unblemished, and the dust jacket is sharp and in a protective Brodart cover. No price clippings, no remainder marks. You'll be compelled to shout "Beam me up, Scotty!" with Shatnerian élan once you have this book in your hands! NOTE: Evidence of dusty-smudgey handling to the sides of the pages, and a cinnamon-dusting of foxing all around. Also: to the edge of the back board, about two inches from the bottom, there is a bump which also bumped the last few pages just a bit. Jacket has three micro-dots of foxing on it. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First British and first hardcover edition, light lean, tiny ding to top edge, small light scuff to bottom edges, and mild sunning to spine and edges. Otherwise a tight, Very Good+ copy in like dustjacket, which is faintly sunned, and has a hint of wear to the spine ends and corners. Jacket is in Mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First British and first hardcover edition, signed by McDevitt on the title page, the book has a shallow skew to the binding, very slight wear to the spine ends, very faint sunning to the spine and head, and a hint of minor smudging to the edges of the text block. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight and sharp, Very Good+ copy in an unclipped, Near Fine dust jacket, which has faint sunning to the spine, and a touch of wear to the upper corners. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Danny Flynn, dj art (illustrator). 1st Hardcover Edition. Signed by Author(s). The dust jacket is unclipped (?11.95). Signed by the author on the title page.

Two vols. in one. 8vo. 669, [3] pp. Dark blue publisher's cloth, gilt lettering, w/ d.j. cover art by Bob Eggelton (slight shelfwear), NF/NF copy, signed by the author on the title. First edition, thus, signed by the author of the two novels which launched McDevitt's career, including a revised "The Hercules Text" which was winner of the 1986 Philip K. Dick Special Award, and Locus Award for best first novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A Talent for War by Jack McDevitt (First Edition) A beautiful unread copy. Three-Quarter Leather. First Trade Hardcover Edition. One-of-a-kind. Unique ""founder's copy"" of first trade hardcover edition (preceded in hardcover only by an American book-club edition), and first British edition. (The statement of printing on the copyright page is incorrect, the British hardcover edition precedes the British paperback edition.) Bound-up from the first sheets supplied to the publisher from the printer. This copy was specially bound for the founder of Kinnell Publications Limited, in three-quarter tan Morocco (goat skin) with gold lettering on a red Morocco lettering-piece, gold stamping, raised bands, and top and fore-edge gilt. This copy, and this copy only, has a colophon. This copy then is the first copy of the first trade hardcover edition and the first copy of the first British edition, in a unique and handsome binding. With a signed letter of provenance from Kinnell's founder A.E. Cunningham. BOOK.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Danny Flynn (illustrator). First UK Edition. 310pp. 8.1 inches. Grape-coloured buckram, gilt titles. Unused unread book. As new with light bump top of spine, tiny hint of bump to tiny part of base edges. Faintly foxed fops, scattered faint fox speckles to other edges. Internally pristine, no owner's marks. In fresh bright jacket, art by Danny Flynn, as new with tiny creasing at top of spine, faint light surface shelfwear. The First UK edition, preceded by Ace pb and a US bookclub edition. Scarce. 480g. (Science Fiction, Space Opera) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Edition, 1st printing, with full number line. Inscribed, signed, dated and placed by the author on the title page. Beautiful edition with no flaws and tightly layered pages as if unread. Jacket not clipped and looks galactic in a mylar jacket protector. Packing suitable for wrapping. Inscribed by Author(s).