Condition: Like New. SIGNED! Not personalized (See Photos)! Packed in a BOX with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos!) 3rd Printing of First Edition, 1993. Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free, deckle edge. Dust Jacket: clean, bright, near fine edges. Same or next day shipping (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships from California.  ABOUT: Five episodes in the history of Pern, from the very first space survey recommending colonization, to the last, where the early world, its young dragon culture undetected, is condemned to be isolated in space.