VANCE, Jack (1916-2013). The Jack Vance Reader. [Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2008]. 8vo. 484 pp. Publisher's full brown leather, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's unclipped ("$38") dust jacket). FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 26 LETTERED COPIES ("I"). 

"Jack Vance is science fiction’s world-builder par excellence, a multi-award-winning Grand Master and much-loved doyen of the art of the planetary adventure. In a career spanning 59 years, Vance has been responsible -- more than any other writer in the field -- for creating exotic alien cultures and living, breathing worlds, among them Tschai, Durdane and Big Planet, Trullion, Cadwal and Wyst, Aerlith, Fader and Dar Sai. Now, in a single impressive volume, The Jack Vance Reader brings together three of the master’s very best planetary adventures: the internationally acclaimed Emphyrio, the classic interplanetary whodunnit, The Domains of Koryphon, and the provocative and unforgettable The Languages of Pao." (Publisher's website).

Faint minor soiling to edge of text block; front jacket flap faintly creased. Bright and fine.