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Lot 356
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
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Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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1,500
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$1,560
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Lot Description
STEPHENSON, Neal (b.1959). Snow Crash. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.
8vo. Original red and black printed beige wrappers (light soiling to covers).
FIRST EDITION, UNCORRECTED PROOF. SIGNED BY STEPHENSON on the title-page and dated 19 November 1997. Snow Crash is a genre-defining cyberpunk novel that follows hacker and pizza delivery driver Hiro Protagonist as he uncovers a virtual drug threatening both the Metaverse (a term coined here for the first time) and reality. Widely acclaimed, it was nominated for the British Science Fiction Association Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
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