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[SCIENCE FICTION]. NIVEN, Larry (b. 1938). Ringworld. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1977]. 342 pp. Publisher’s red cloth backstrip over orange boards, spine stamped in silver, publisher’s unclipped (“$8.95”) dust jacket (minor rubbing to binding; minor toning to jacket). Fine. FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION, INSCRIBED BY NIVEN ON THE TITLE-PAGE: “for Patrick - Larry Niven 3/29/1980”. This edition has the first appearance of Niven’s “Author’s Note.” Ringworld won the Nebula Award in 1970 and the Hugo Award and Locus Award in 1971 (it first appeared in print in 1970 in paperback).