SALT

by Adam Roberts

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition · Signed

London: Victor Gollancz, 2000 . Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed on the title page by Roberts. The author's first novel, in which two groups of human migrants settle on the eponymous planet, whose radical and demanding simplicity -- it is salt-covered -- make it into a sounding board against which the dire incompatibilities of the two societies become drastically clear: one of them being a patriarchic hierarchy and

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