Author: VANCE, JACK
Title: Showboat World
Description: New York: Daw Books, 1981. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB. This is a First DAW printing (stated) and with complete number line. This book is in Very Good+ condition. The book cover has some light rubbing and edge wear to the spine ends, corners and two light creases to the spine. The text pages are clean and bright. "Showboat World (original title: The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River, Lune XXIII, Big Planet) is a science fiction novel by American writer Jack Vance, first published in 1975. It is the second, stand-alone novel in a pair of novels (the first being Big Planet) that share the same setting, a backward, lawless, metal-poor world called Big Planet. The plot structure which involves a series of dramatic presentations, often with humorous consequences, has parallels with Vance's 1965 novel Space Opera. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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