True first printing, confirmed by ISFDB, of the final installment of the LER trilogy. Complete numberline verifies first priniting. Tight, clean, flat, square book. Toned pages. Interior illustrations by Jack Gaughan, cover by Michael Whelan. Edgewear, owner's marks. His name was Meure and he hired out on an alien ship to see the universe. There were ler aboard that vessel-transmuted humans who were partial supermen-and specifically there was the ler girl Flerdestar who had a mission. When Meure and Flerdestar were marooned on the world they called Monsalvat, they were confronted by a planetary enigma involving time and space. For Monsalvat had a myriad human species, all alien to each other, and all in awe of the Mystery that dominated their isolated planet. Here is the long-awaited major novel by the author of THE GAMEPLAYERS OF ZAN and WARRIORS OF DAWN. It is a masterwork of alien wonders, human ingenuities, of the past invading the present, and of the perverted legacy of the legendary mistress of the first starship, the mad ler Sanjirmil...