First edition, first printing. Near fine in very good DJ.Signed by author on inner flyleaf. DJ is not price clipped; shows a bit of edge wear, two very small closed tears and a small chip. Book beginning to show a bit of foxing on text block edges.

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Title: Creation
Publisher: Random House
Publication Date: 1981
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0394500156
ISBN 13: 9780394500157
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Cyrus Spitama, aged Persian ambassador to Athens, recounts his official and personal journeys throughout the world of the fifth century B.C. and his encounters with the Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, and other great men of an extraordinary century

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"An incredibly detailed and convincing picture of the ancient world." -Anthony Burgess

"Brilliantly realized. . . . Fertile, vivid, and ingenious. . . . [A] surging river of a book." -Mary Renault, The New York Review of Books
"His best novel. . . . There isn't a page of Creation that doesn't inform and very few pages that do not delight" -The New York Times

"Highly literate, stylish, entertaining and provocative." -The Wall Street Journal

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