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Bound in grey cloth over blue boards, stamped in gold in illustrated dust jacket by Don Maitz. This is the first volume in the author's Blood of the New Sun Series. Full page inscription on the obverse of the front free endpaper to a writer's agent, Lois, at the New Yorker. 303 pp. Downright rare in this protected conditon and with a long personal inscription.

The first volume in The Book of the New Sun series, this novel introduces Severian, a journeyman torturer, as he embarks on his quest of exile and enlightenment.