The View from Chickweed's Window
San Francisco: Underwood/ Miller, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, one of 450 unnumbered copies only. A fine, tight exmaple, bit of offsetting to the enpapers and jacket flaps. In a generally fine dust jacket with the merest hint of toning to the spine strip and extremely minor wear at the very ends of the spine and a short closed crease/tear bottom of rear panel. A classic mystery of murder, trechery, deceit, manipulation, murder and finally revenge. The story of nine year old Luellen Enright, ..."orphaned, stripped of her inheritance and sent to live with hostile and unpleasant relatives" in San Francisco. There she become familiar with a host of odd matters and strage behavior but Fte has worse in store...she is found guilty of murder. Under his more familiar name Jack Vance, the author was one of the msot notable writes of science fiction and fantasy. Fine / near fine. Item #E20090
Price: $85.00