Signet October 1981 first printing paperback original. Cover by Paul Alexander, 151 pages,$2.25 cover price. Condition is near-Fine: tight and almost square with flat spine, faint line next to spine (see scan); age tanning is mild and uniform (darker on insides of covers.) Autographed on inside of cover. No stamps, marks, or writing - a clean copy.

The Soul Eater, a novel by Michael Resnick, well-known SF Fan and now prolific author. After his first 3 novels in the late Sixties, Resnick wrote a couple-hundred (!) non-SF books under various names, then came back to SF in the Eighties, and has 40 or 50 SF books since then.

[The back-cover copy]: GALACTIC KILLER! Nicobar Lane, cold-blooded killer, total professional, a man who will - if the price is right - travel whereever the hunt may take him, riding the space lanes from planet to planet to track down any creature a collector could possibly desire. Yet there is one being Lane won't pursue for any fee - the Soul Eater. The Soul Eater, Dreamwish Beast, Starduster - it is known by many different names throughout the galaxy. But who has actually met this living legend? No - as far as Lane is concerned, the Soul Eater is a myth chased after by fools and madmen. Then Lane himself encounters the Soul Eater in the depths of space, and suddenly there is no turning back. For how can the greates hunter in the galaxy ignore the challenge of overcoming the one creature that no one has ever been able to trap? And so the hunt is on - but before long even Lane can't tell who is the pursued and who is the pursuer...