First Trade edition, following a signed limited edition. Spine ends & corners of book covers have a bit of very light bumping and rubbing. Grey paper covered boards have a purple cloth spine with gilt lettering. Text pages are clean & bright. Spine ends & corners of dust jacket have a bit of very light bumping & rubbing. Overall, a nice bright copy. "The central figure in The Desert Rose is Harmony, a lead dancer in a Las Vegas casino, who manages to maintain a high degree of optimism in that flat, aird landscape of 24-hour-a-day supermarkets, spurious glittering casinos and second-rate men on the make that is Las Vegas."

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