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Look to Windward
de Banks, Iain M
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine /Near Fine
- Librería
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Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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Orbit. London: Orbit, 200 8 vo., black publisher's boards lettered in bronze along spine, with publisher's device to foot; in the original unclipped dust jacket (£16.99) with an illustration by Mark Salwowski, and a photograph of the author to the lower flap; black endpapers; pp. [xi], 2-357, [i]; slightly pushed to spine tips; a couple of small white marks to outer edges of boards; light spotting to fore-edge; near-fine, still, the defects minor; jacket essentially fine, with a little rubbing to the upper edge, and a tiny amount of lifting to the laminate. First edition, boldly signed by the author to the title page. Banks' sixth novel to feature The Culture, an interstellar post-scarcity civilisation, first introduced by him in Consider Phlebas (1987), of which Look to Windward can be seen as a loose sequel. Both titles are derived directly from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land: O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you. - IV. Death by Water The plot centres around a 'Chelgrian' on a suicide mission to destroy a Culture world in revenge for the genocide of billions of his own people. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 2008.
Sinopsis
Look to Windward is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 2000. It is Banks' sixth published novel to feature The Culture.
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- Librería
- The Plantagenet King
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 003278
- Título
- Look to Windward
- Autor
- Banks, Iain M
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Editorial
- Orbit
- Fecha de publicación
- 2008
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
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