The Face by Jack Vance (First Edition) Signed

Jack Vance

ISBN 10: 0934438234 / ISBN 13: 9780934438230

Published by Underwood Miller, San Francisco California / Columbia, Pennsylvania, 1980

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The Face by Jack Vance (First Edition) Signed A tight square copy. Limited. 48 of 150 copies signed and numbered by the Author. First hardcover edition, stated.

Seller Inventory # HCX10482-2

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Face by Jack Vance (First Edition) Signed
• Publisher: Underwood Miller, San Francisco California / Columbia, Pennsylvania
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0934438234
• ISBN 13: 9780934438230
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: BOOK
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction

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Synopsis

Kirth Gersen tracks Lens Larque across several worlds, most notably Aloysius, the desert world Dar Sai and the more temperate Methel. He eventually learns that Larque is a Darsh, born Husse Bugold. He had been deprived of an earlobe and made a rachepol or outcast from his clan for a crime considered "repulsive but not superlatively heinous." He took the name Lens Larque, after the lanslarke, an indigenous creature and the fetish of the Bugold clan. (It was this slim clue that enabled Gersen to track him down.) He then became a notorious criminal renowned for his magnificent, if often grotesque and horrifying, jests.