Book Club Edition, first printing and first hardcover edition. Code 35724 on rear jacket panel. Statement "Ace edition / January 2001" present on copyright page. (Previously published as a trade paperback original by Ace, this first hardcover edition was later published by Ace as a book club edition.) Very faint jacket crinkling at top edge of spine panel, else a very fine (unread) copy in fine jacket. An excellent copy for this critically acclaimed, award-winning and horrifying SF novel about alien contact. Award History: 2001 Philip K. Dick Award Winner; 2001 Notable Book of the Year List, NY Times Book Review, Dec. 2, 2001; 2002 Locus Poll Award Nominee (lost to Passage by Connie Willis).