Description

• Scarce early hardcover [Readers Union, London, 1973]; 288 pages; purple boards, silver titling to spine with SFBC at base, pages slightly age-toned, an essentially fine copy; in like illustrated dustjacket
• Winner of the Hugo, Locus & Nebula Awards
• Became the first novel in Niven’s Ringworld Series [set within his Known Space universe]
• Ringworld was first published as a paperback [Ballantine Books, New York, 1970]; it wasn’t published as a hardcover until 1972 [Victor Gollancz, London] with this copy released by RU under its Science Fiction Book Club imprint the following year