Marvel, New York, 2004, 3^rd pr thus.  ISBN 0-7851-0887-4.  Large soft cover, unpaginated (approx. 224 pages).  Unread copy with light edge and cover wear, small corner creases.  Collects New X-Men #118-126.  ‘… as protesters lay siege to the Xavier Institute, mutant mentor Professor X lies in a coma … dying, trapped within the shattered form of his evil twin.  Cassandra Nova inhabited Xavier’s body and escaped to the stars in the wake of her initial encounter with the X-Men:  now, the psionically empowered psychopath is returning to Earth – possessed of the most powerful mutant mind on the planet, and with the might of the Shi’ar Imperium at her back.  She brought an interstellar empire to its knees – can even the X-Men hope to halt her mad rampage?’ (from rear wrap)