New York: Franklin Watts, 1988. Fine condition in Fine dust jacket. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped ($17.95). Jacket praise from Terry Carr and Gregory Benford. From the Dust Jacket: "Nightglider roamed a mysterious world. Robot cleaning machines patrolled the abandoned corridors, and mechanical servants presided over empty restaurants that echoed to the sounds of Muzak. This was the giant Hotel, where human beings had regressed to savagery and tribes of cannibals hunted one another... The outside world had long since been forgotten. The hugeness of the Hotel had become the entire known universe... Before he could reach this legendary leisure zone, Nightglider must fight his epic battle with Big Knife; and even after that, there would be the mysterious Hotel Mind to contend with. This giant computer, monitoring the entire labyrinth of rooms and elevator shafts, had a mission in mind for Nightglider -- a mission that promised to uproot him from paradise and plunge him into strangeness beyond even the Hotel itself." . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Potter, J. K. (jacket painting). 8vo. 263pp . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

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Bookseller: About Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 010159
Title: Prisoners of Paradise
Author: Cross, Ronald Anthony
Illustrator: Potter, J. K. (jacket painting)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine condition
Jacket Condition: Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Printing of the First Edition
ISBN 10: 0531150836
ISBN 13: 9780531150832
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1988
Size: 8vo. 263pp
Bookseller catalogs: Science Fiction / Fantasy;

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