Hardcover first edition, first printing. Not a book club, remainder or ex-library copy. Faint chipping at head and heel of spine panel with one tiny closed tear (0.25 cm in size), else very fine (unread) copy in fine jacket. A clean, square copy without price-clipping. "A subtle, but moving novel." - Barron (ed), Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4- 187. Award History: 1988 Locus Poll Award Nominee (lost to The Uplift War by David Brin); 1990 Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee (lost to The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman).