Iain Banks – The State Of the Art – SIGNED First Edition 1991
£600.00
A first edition, first printing of The State of the Art by Iain M Banks, published by Macmillan, London in 1991. A near fine copy SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to the front free end paper, some semicircular damp-staining to front panel, the text block bright and crisp. In a fine unclipped wrapper with small chip to upper knuckle of rear flap fold.
The State of the Art is a collection of Iain M. Banks stories, best known for its title novella, in which a Culture ship visits Earth in 1977 and debates whether to intervene in human affairs. Blending satire, science fiction and moral philosophy, it contrasts the Culture’s abundance with terrestrial violence and pettiness. The volume also gathers darker, playful pieces that show Banks testing ideas later central to his wider work as a writer.
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A first edition, first printing of The State of the Art by Iain M Banks, published by Macmillan, London in 1991. A near fine copy SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to the front free end paper, some semicircular damp-staining to front panel, the text block bright and crisp. In a fine unclipped wrapper with small chip to upper knuckle of rear flap fold.
The State of the Art is a collection of Iain M. Banks stories, best known for its title novella, in which a Culture ship visits Earth in 1977 and debates whether to intervene in human affairs. Blending satire, science fiction and moral philosophy, it contrasts the Culture’s abundance with terrestrial violence and pettiness. The volume also gathers darker, playful pieces that show Banks testing ideas later central to his wider work as a writer.
