Snow Crash (Signed first trade paperback)

New York: Bantam Books, 1992. First trade paperback. Near Fine. A Near Fine copy signed by Neal Stephenson on the title-page. First trade paperback with complete number line (9 to 1) on copyright page. Some toning to edges of pages, as usual, but an attractive copy overall.

"Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don't dare leave their mansions. Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords. His home is a shared U-Stor-It. He spends most of his time off goggled in to the Metaverse, where his avatar is legendary. But in the club known as The Black Sun, his fellow hackers are being felled by a strange new drug called Snow Crash that reduces them to nothing more than a jittering cloud of bad digital karma -- and, in real life, a vegetative state). Investigating the Infocalypse leads Hiro all the way back to the beginning of language itself...he must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination" (Random House). Near Fine.