EMPHYRIO

by John Holbrook Vance, Jack Vance.

$650 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The protagonist must travel to Earth to recover the knowledge necessary to free his world from the cultural rigidity imposed on it by alien rulers. Picks up themes from earlier Vance novels, including THE LANGUAGES OF PAO, to further illustrate the author's fascination with colorful, exotic cultures and messianic rebels against the stagnation

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