Surface Detail by Banks, Iain M

HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2010* Publisher: Orbit Books.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, white title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing a pair of yellow eyes staring out of a background of stars in space, yellow and white titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £18.99. Absolutely minimal, shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (grey). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight age to top & fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 627 pp. text. vii pp., blank pages at rear.* Description: It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price, and to put things right she will need the help of the Culture.* A FINE text copy of the 1st/1st with some minimal faults in a FINE protected dust jacket.* English