Snow Crash

New York: Bantam Books (1992). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 440 pp. Original quarter navy cloth over maroon paper-covered boards, stamped in silver, in original unclipped ($22.00) dust-jacket. Mild edge wear, shelf and handling wear - particular wear, chipping to spine ends and corners. Small closed tear to top rear panel near spine. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, with faint forward lean. Mild shelf wear with rubbing to edges, corners - particular to spine crown and foot. Page edges smudged and handled. Remainder mark to bottom text block. Interior clean and unmarked.

Dust Jacket: Very Good

Hardcover: Very Good

“Snow Crash established Stephenson as a major science fiction writer of the 1990s. The book appeared on Time magazine's list of 100 all-time best English-language novels written since 1923. Some critics have considered it a parody of cyberpunk and mentioned its satiric or absurdist humor. Snow Crash is a science fiction novel by the American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1992. Like many of Stephenson's novels, its themes include history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics, and philosophy. Snow Crash was nominated for both the British Science Fiction Award in 1993 and the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1994.”