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.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($18.95), lightly toned, a few small closed tears. Blue boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first novel in Banks's Culture series.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. Stated First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good. Octavo, 8.5 in. x 5.7 in., pp. 471. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt title to spine. Very light rubbing to extremities. Unmarked interior. Light sunning, and light rubbing to edges of dustjacket. Protected in mylar. "Consider Phlebas is a space opera novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks. It is the first in a series of novels about an interstellar post-scarcity society called the Culture. The novel revolves around the Idiran-Culture War, and Banks plays on that theme by presenting various microcosms of that conflict. Its protagonist Bora Horza Gobuchul is an enemy of the Culture." (from Wikipedia) "Escape seemed impossible: 'there was one bewilderingly complicated and unlikely way out of the concentric shells of erupting energies now opening like the petals of some immense flower between the star systems. It was not, however, a route the Mind of a small, archaic warship could plan for, create… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. Hardcover. 1st U.S. edition, 1st printing. 471 pp. Fine book in blue boards with gilt lettering to spine (binding square and tight, no markings; slight softening to spine tips) / Fine dust jacket (price not clipped; a trace of wear to head and heel of dj spine and to top of front flap-fold). A clean, fresh, unread copy.

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.