Downbelow Station

by C. J. Cherryh

Description

Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh, with original artwork by Vincent DiFate, is a Collector's Edition bound in full leather of deep forest green with a fine pebbled grain and a low satin sheen, accented in 22kt gold. The front board is framed by a slender gold rule that turns inward across the upper left corner, and within it a broad band of stippled gold sweeps diagonally from the lower left toward the upper right like a star stream, edged along its underside by a fan of fine parallel hatch lines. A many-rayed starburst sits along the fore-edge margin at mid height, and in the lower portion a ringed orbital station is drawn in gold line, its banded cylindrical hull crossed by slender masts and antennae, with scattered points and small cross-shaped stars dispersed around it. The hubbed spine carries raised bands with a ringed planet emblem in gold at the head above a curved rule, the title in tall gilt capitals reading lengthwise down the panel, C. J. Cherryh in small gilt letters below it, and a further emblem in the compartment at the foot. Issued in a limited run within the Masterpieces of Science Fiction collection by The Easton Press, it is Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints, printed on acid-neutral archival paper, finished with 22kt gold gilded page edges, and carries a pristine bookplate inside the front cover. A single-owner copy from a private collection, unread and always stored in dust-free bookcases in a dry climate, its condition is pristine and as new.

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