Worn edges, rounded and bent corners. Creased wraps. Toned pages and inside wraps. Previous owner's name, dated with a brief review on the inside front cover. Bookstore stamps. Both are true first printing per ISFDB, matching all published points. Kelly Freas did both covers. In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-Utopian worlds like New Alexandria to vermin-infested slums like Old Earth, the Star-Pilots that link the cosmos are the great heroes of the day, and Grainger has become a legend in his own lifetime. The atmosphere of Mormyr is so dense that the surface is unreachable, which made it the ideal place for the alien Gallacellans to hide an ancient spaceship. Now they want it back. Grainger refuses, but when the Hooded Swan answers a mayday call, Grainger and his crew are trapped by a madman, who forces them to pursue the salvage anyway. Success will mean Grainger's freedom from Titus Charlot, owner of the Hooded Swan; failure will mean the death of the inhabitants of an entire planet. And then the Gallacellans appear! Hooded Swan, Book Five. *** Mark Chaos was a long way from home. He had spent many years fighting in the Beast war, which had begun as an affair of honor but ended in a bloodbath for all the Humans of the House of Stars. Yet Beasts and Humans were exactly alike?except that ten thousand years before the Beasts had originated from zoological gene banks under the deft hands of the construct surgeons. The war was a terrible thing, even more terrible because its leaders never knew they were being tricked and guided by one man?a man who came from a universe which no longer existed. He was Heljanita the Toymaker, who spun a crooked wheel that distorted minds and dimensions. And Heljanita was particularly interested in Mark Chaos. These books, along with about 1500 others, were acquired from the estate of a dedicated collector of science fiction. He treated them all the same, with regards to markings on the inside front cover. He was a engineer, and he preferred hard science fiction according to his comments. More philosophical works like these were not his cup of tea. Both of these book were rated for awards, though neither received the nod.