Used Hardcover published by Tor Fantasy Books, N.Y, 1988, 554 pages. Book is in Excellent Condition, all pages are free of any rips/tears/marks/bent or loose pages.Dust Jacket has some slight shelf wear. The planet "Cadwal" is forever set aside as a natural perserve, owned and administered by the Naturalist Socirty of Earth, and inhabited by a very limited number of skilled human scientists and their families. But this system has been complicated by the passing centuries, and has become a byzantine culture where every place in the Houses of Cadwal is the object of savage competition. In "Araminta Station", the first volume of "The Cadwal Chronicles", Jack Vance has constructed a brilliant, complex tale of revenge and murder, of love and alien intrigue, and set it glittering among the stars of the Purple Rose System. We ship within 24 hours of your purchase with a Delivery Confirmation.