Consider Phlebas

London: MacMillan, (1987). First edition, 1st impression. 8vo. 471 pp. Original octavo black cloth over white paper-covered boards, stamped in silver, in original unclipped (£10.95) dust-jacket. Almost as-new. Light wrinkling and rippling to jacket, else without considerable flaws. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Trivial handling wear to edges with faintest smudges to panels. Stiff, sharp. Signed by the author in black pen on the title page.

Dust Jacket: Fine

Hardcover: Fine

“Consider Phlebas, first published in 1987, is a space opera novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks. It is the first in a series of novels about an interstellar post-scarcity society called the Culture. The novel revolves around the Idiran–Culture War, and Banks plays on that theme by presenting various microcosms of that conflict. Its protagonist Bora Horza Gobuchul is an enemy of the Culture. Consider Phlebas is Banks's first published science fiction novel, and takes its title from a line in T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land. A subsequent Culture novel, Look to Windward (2000), whose title comes from the previous line of the same poem, can be considered a loose follow-up.”