Ringworld.

£1,500 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

signed by the author First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the title page. The Ballantine paperback edition precedes the hardcover Gollancz edition by two years. Winner of the so-called 'triple crown' of science fiction (it won Nebula Award in 1970 and both the Hugo and Lotus Awards in 1971), Niven's novel is considered a classic of the genre and tells of four explorers venturing across an enormous alien ring-shaped structure. It was later republished numerous times in hardback. First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the title page; (178 x 108 mm, 7 x 4¼ in); text block toned as usual, else internally clean; publisher's adhesive-bound illustrated wrappers, reading creases to spine, crease to fore-edge corner of lower wrapper, upper wrapper with some faint impressed marks, a very good copy; 342pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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