THE LAST CASTLE

by John Holbrook Vance, Jack Vance.

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

San Francisco, California, Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood/Miller, 1980. Large octavo, illustrated by Alicia Austin, original purple cloth front and spine stamped in silver. First hardcover edition. A novella in which far-future Earth is re-colonized by humans who establish themselves as an aristocracy supported by alien under classes, but become vulnerable to revolution. Elegant exoticism with underlying political

• Binding: Hardcover

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