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DONALDSON**, STEPHEN: : The Gap Into Conflict - The Real Story.**

LONDON.COLLINS,1990.

ISBN 0002238276.

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[The UK,HB 1st edn,Collins,November 1990,precedes the US HB edn by 3 months.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial artwork by David O'Connor,illustrated front panel of dw/dj with gilt and white ink printed letters,gilt+white letters to black spine,rear panel with author's b/w portrait photograph; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges dust-flecked/spotted,fore-edges with light toning; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain black cloth boards (bds) with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers (eps).UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-173pp [paginated] includes 18 chapters and an afterword,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,title separator page and 2pp blanks at rear of book. First book in a new series by acclaimed and best-selling writer in this fantasy genre.In his epic new series he turns his attention to fascinating new worlds,far away in time and space. For the crowd at Mallory Bar the story was simple. Morn Hyland and Angus Thermopyle looked grotesque together.She was gorgeous; he was loathsome and perhaps the most disreputable man still holding docking rights on the Com-Mine ore-mining station. Yet he certainly had some sort of hold over her.The failed asteroid miners, pirates and claim jumpers who drank there even talked of zone implants.They were illegal,of course,except for treating gap-sickness,but they could see the way he kept one hand constantly fisted in the pocket of his grease-stained shipsuit. No one was surprised by the current that sparked across the room when Morn and Nick Succorso first set eyes on each other.His piratical reputation and personal magnetism made him the most desirable man in DelSec.The only flaws on his otherwise perfect face the scars under his eyes that darkened ominously when he first saw Morn. Two weeks later it finally happened.When Com-Mine Security burst into Mallorys to arrest Thermopyle for hijacking a supply ship from Earth,Morn was suddenly at Nick's sdie,and just as suddenly they were gone.While Angus was left to rot in Station lock-up,they disappeared to become the sort of story drunks and dreamers tell each other.Just another tale of animal passion,a man and a woman driven together by lust. That,of course,was not the real story. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item, for correct,insured (where necessary) shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

DONALDSON**, STEPHEN: : The Gap Into Conflict - The Real Story.**

LONDON.COLLINS,1990.

ISBN 978000223827.

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[The UK,HB 1st edn,Collins, November 1990,precedes the US HB edn by 3 months.] FINE-/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,colour pictorial artwork by David O'Connor, illustrated front panel of dw/dj with gilt and white ink printed letters,gilt+white letters to black spine,rear panel with author's b/w portrait photograph; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges dust-flecked/spotted,fore-edges with light toning; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original, plain black cloth boards (bds) with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers (eps).UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-173pp [paginated] includes 18 chapters and an afterword,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,title separator page and 2pp blanks at rear of book. First book in a new series by acclaimed and best-selling writer in this fantasy genre.In his epic new series he turns his attention to fascinating new worlds,far away in time and space. For the crowd at Mallory Bar the story was simple. Morn Hyland and Angus Thermopyle looked grotesque together.She was gorgeous; he was loathsome and perhaps the most disreputable man still holding docking rights on the Com-Mine ore-mining station. Yet he certainly had some sort of hold over her.The failed asteroid miners, pirates and claim jumpers who drank there even talked of zone implants.They were illegal,of course,except for treating gap-sickness,but they could see the way he kept one hand constantly fisted in the pocket of his grease-stained shipsuit. No one was surprised by the current that sparked across the room when Morn and Nick Succorso first set eyes on each other.His piratical reputation and personal magnetism made him the most desirable man in DelSec.The only flaws on his otherwise perfect face the scars under his eyes that darkened ominously when he first saw Morn. Two weeks later it finally happened.When Com-Mine Security burst into Mallorys to arrest Thermopyle for hijacking a supply ship from Earth,Morn was suddenly at Nick's side,and just as suddenly they were gone.While Angus was left to rot in Station lock-up,they disappeared to become the sort of story drunks and dreamers tell each other.Just another tale of animal passion,a man and a woman driven together by lust. That,of course,was not the real story. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item, for correct,insured (where necessary) shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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