Spine ends & corners of book covers have a bit of very light bumping and rubbing. Blue paper covered boards have a darker blue cloth spine. Text pages are clean & bright. Endpapers (both front & rear) have some beginning discoloration to spine due to acid of glue used. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of very light bumping & rubbing. There is one small edge tear to bottom rear dust jacket at flap hinge. Rear dust jacket has two small patches where there are minute scratches. Overall, a very good+ copy. A Nebula Award Winning book. "Sri Kanda, the Sacred Mountain rising majestically above the equatorial island of Taprobane, bears silent witness to the hazardous lives of two obsessed men. King Kalidasa, tyrant of the second century, murderous usurper of an ancient kingdom, sought to reach heaven by creating his lofty Pleasure Gardens, with their towering fountains and the panorama of beautiful maidens. Two thousand years later, Vannevar Morgan, brilliant engineer of the twenty-second century, seeks to approach the stars through technological daring that will open a new era in space travel."

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