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Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Limited to 111 copies of which this is one of 100 copies with numbered limitation label affixed to the colophon page, this being copy number 75). Signed by Vance on the half title page and artist George Barr on the title page. "Cycle of stories set in a decadent far future when civilization has virtually disappeared and magic has reclaimed the world." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 5-296a. "Little noticed at initial publication, this work launched a whole subgenre of fictional futures in which magic replaces science ." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-185. The author's first book. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1162. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-345. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 100 Best Books 70. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 11. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 1066. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 441-46. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 665-70. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 168-69. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#172855).

The Dying Earth is a collection of science fantasy short stories by the American author Jack Vance, published in 1950. The stories are interrelated and feature the world of the Dying Earth, a distant future Earth under a dying sun. The book has been highly influential in the fantasy and science fiction genres.