John Holbrook Vance [Jack Vance] - The View from Chickweed&Apos;S Window: A Novel of Suspense

San Francisco, Underwood/Miller, 1979 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of this mystery novel from American science fiction author Jack Vance, set in 1950s San Francisco. Flat signed by Vance to the title page.The first edition, first impression of this work, one of four-hundred and fifty unnumbered Limited Edition copies produced. In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Vance's novel - authored in 1959 but not published until 1979 - follows an orphan who his sent to live with her aunt and uncle's family in San Francisco. She struggles to fit in, and is eventually sent to a state home, but returns years later and uncovers a family secret.Illustrated with a frontispiece. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper in fine condition. Internally, firmly bound. Flat signed to title page. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.

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