DAW, New York, 1981, 1st pr thus.  ISBN 0-87997-588-1.  DAW’s SF Books No. 417.  MMPB, 160 pages.  Wraps show light edge and cover wear, colour loss from sticker removal at upper left; binding tight with very faint reading creases; old price sticker on rear wrap.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanning pages; black & white frontis; slight bow to book.  Includes:  Dust of Far Suns, Dodkin’s Job, Ullward’s Retreat, and The Gift of Gab.  ‘Here are four novelettes, each displaying in delectable detail all the qualities that mark Vance’s great novels.  Alien societies, exotic peoples, far worlds, and the vast communion between the stars, are all here.’ (from rear wrap)