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Bantam Spectra, 1992. Later Printing. Mass Market Paperback. VG-.

Ballantine/Spectra, New York, 2011. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear.1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history - and the future: Sybil Gerard - dishonored woman and daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward "Leviathan" Mallory - explorer and paleontologist; Laurence Oliphant - diplomat and spy. Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched Engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards someone wants badly enough to kill for...Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine is the first collaborative novel by two of the most brilliant and controversial science fiction authors of our time. Provocative, compelling, intensely imagined, it is a startling extension of Gibson's… Read More

New York: Bantam Books, 1991. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New. Trade Sized Paperback. First Edition. Noted on front cover "ADVANCED READING COPY-NOT FOR SALE". Proof for the hardcover first edition. 435 pages. Red wrappers with gold lettering. AS NEW. Not read. All corners pointed. Binding tight, without stress creases and square. No tears, bumps, creases or chips. Not marked in any way and very clean, glossy and bright. All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

New York:: Bantam,, 1991.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Authors' first collaboration - a fantasy returning in time to the Victorian Age and the roots of our technological society - where the computer has arrived a century ahead of time with the perfection of Charles Babbage's Analytial Engine.

New York: Bantam, 1991. First U.S. edition. Advance reading copy in glossy wraps. Fine copy with a short rub along the rear spine fold.. Wraps.

New York: Bantam, 1991. First American Edition . Hardback. Near Fine/Fine. some light foxing to the page edges

New York: Bantam, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 429pp. Beautiful First Edition, First Printing with full number sequence. Square, tight and clean throughout with t is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. A pretty collectable copy at great price.

New York: Bantam Books, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Quarter burgundy cloth, burgundy paper boards. 429 pp. Fine condition.

United States: Bantam, 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book is clean and tight with no marks or stamps, jacket has light edgewear, else clean. Difference Engine world map is printed on the front and rear endpapers. Signed on the title page by Bruce Sterling, he also wrote "you are here" with an arrow pointing to the the San Francisco Bay Area on the FEP map, which is where the book was signed. Signature obtained in person, mylar dustjacket for protection.

The Difference Engine by William Gibson (author of Neuromancer) and Bruce Sterling (Islands in the Net) Hardcover First Edition - First Printing Gollancz UK 1990. (preceded the Bantam US edition) Beautiful wrap-around dust jacket art by Ian Miller. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. A stunning near flawless copy, appears UNREAD, and the page edges are not age-toned. Just about as nice as you could ask for in a book 25 years old.NOTE: All modern books with dust jackets come with dust jacket covers.
ALSO: The picture is the actual item for sale. (The picture is NOT a stock photo.)

Bantam, 1991 First Printing (full # line) in unclipped dust jacket SIGNED by both authors without inscription direct to title page with their added "1855" as mock-date below the publisher information on the page, a Fine unmarked copy in like dj (now in mylar protector); 8vo; 429pp; illus endpapers. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

London: Gollancz, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardcover London; Gollancz, 1990, First edition. Hardcover. Very fine in very fine and bright dust jacket. An as new copy.

New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1991]. Advance reading copy of the first U.S. edition. A fine copy in fine proof dust jacket. Publisher's publicity sheet laid in. (#168784) (29586). Octavo, printed wrappers. Perhaps the classic steampunk novel. A tale set in a filthy, polluted Victorian England running Babbage's hardware and ruled by Lord Byron who had escaped death in Greece. A 1991 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-442.