Elias Kane is asked to find out who is behind a plot to assassinate Gregory Amerdath, Imperator of the Terran Empire
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Remainder mark on bottom and side; DJ rubbed and chipped at corners and spine. Sticker remnants on front of DJ. ; Doubleday Science Fiction; 8.20 X 5.70 X 0.60 inches. Seller Inventory # 10789
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Seller: Uncle Hugo's SF/Uncle Edgar's Mystery, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Lightly soiled at the top of the book; remainder market on the bottom of the book. Jacket lightly soiled on the back cover; light edgewear; pressure dent near center of the spine. Seller Inventory # 107779
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Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dustjacket has some light smudges and is now in a mylar cover. Remainder dot to the top edge. Seller Inventory # 169672
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Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Fine, tight, clean copy in very good plus dust jacket. NO REMAINDER markings or spray! No previous owner marking or bookplate. No jacket chips or tears and jacket is not price-clipped. Seller Inventory # 108095
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Seller: Stuart W. Wells III, Norwalk, CT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Cover art by Bruce Schluter. Review slip laid in. Seller Inventory # 007435
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Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning rubbing and a tiny bump to the bottom spine end. The text pages are clean and bright. "HE IS THE IMPERATOR.Gregory Amerdath, Master of Imperial Earth and the Eight Worlds Beyond. Even here, deep in his Imperial city of Chronos, in the safety of the Garden of the Nine Planets, he is protected by praetorian guards. His ever-watchful Ornyl bodyguard, Chuddath--a grotesque crossbreed of man and giant insect--stands eager to destroy any man who would mean his master harm. Yet it is Elias Kane to whom the Imperator turns for help. Elias Kane, Investigator, who vanquished the awesome evil of the Psychopath Plague. He is the Imperator, the most powerful force in the Empire. And someone is trying to kill him." (from Gooodreads). Seller Inventory # A42327
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Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Fine in very good dust jacket. Hardcover is a nice clean copy, almost new. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, lightly soled and browned. Seller Inventory # 247748
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Seller: Porcupine Books, Ilford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Doubleday 1983 First Edition First Printing (Code N28 on P. 186) Page edges slightly browned/marked and review slip glued to front free end paper else Fine book in slightly marked Dust Jacket ''. a series of assassination attempts on the Imperator of the Terran Empire. his body is totally destroyed - but his head and brain are kept working. Elias Kane. direct the investigation. something more than a duty when Kane's fiancee dies, and its conclusion is more complex and disturbing than he, or anyone, imagined.'' Second in the Elias Kane trilogy. Book. Seller Inventory # 93487
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Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. First Edition. A fine copy in fine dustjacket.; Octavo. Seller Inventory # 4241
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Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Octavo, boards. First edition. The second of Spruill's three novels featuring the scholarly investigator Elias Kane and his pacifist alien partner Pendrake. The story is set in Spruill's Imperial Earth future, three years after the events chronicled in THE PSYCHOPATH PLAGUE. Kane and Pendrake are investigating the attempted murder of Gregory Amerdath, the Imperator of the Nine Worlds. A fine mystery novel, as is THE PSYCHOPATH PLAGUE, by an underrated, undeservedly neglected writer. "A classic example of a science fiction mystery." - Joan D. Vinge. Faint remainder stain to bottom edge of text block, else a fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with 8 mm closed tear at top edge of rear panel. (#154024). Seller Inventory # 154024
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