CONSIDER PHLEBAS by Banks, Iain - [1988]

St Martins Press, 1988. 1. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket; Hardcover; First Printing; Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1; Dust jacket is clean and intact with just very light edgewear, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Unmarked boards with "sharp" edge-corners; All three textblock sides are unblemished; The endpapers and text pages are all clean and unmarked; The binding is tight with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 1.5 lbs; White dust jacket with images of spaceship and title in red lettering; 1988, St Martins Press; 471 pages; "Consider Phlebas," by Iain Banks.

St Martins Pr, 1988T. hardcover. Acceptable. 1.6000 in x 8.3000 in x 5.7000 in. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.

London: Macmillan, [1987]. First edition. Toning to text block, a fine copy in fine dust jacket. (31738). Octavo, boards. "Conflict between two dystopian cultures, one Islamic, the other communist. First of his novels of the Culture, few of which have explicitly utopian content but can collectively be seen as utopian." - Sargent, British and Utopian Literature, 1986-2009. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-72.

London, UK: MacMillan, 1987. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. Pp. Octavo. 471. This is a true first edition, first printing (first impression) with no statement of reprint to the copyright page therefore indicating a true first print in a near fine jacket which is not price clipped. Tightly bound wit lean to the spine, clean pages, unread with light toning. Contemporary inscription by the author to the front end page, which is signed, dated and located. [ To the young and totally impressive Steve Hatton from the utterly complete and total bastard . Iain Banks. Conspiring '87 Brighton 28/8/87 ].