TOR: September 1999 hardcover (stated first edition, number sequence is complete.) Cover by Lisa Falkenstern, 379 pages. Size is 6-1/2" by 9-1/2" Condition is Fine in Fine (-) dustjacket: book is tight and square with the usual light bumping to spine ends, age-tanning is negligible. Unclipped DJ ($24.95 price at top of inside flap) has no tears, very slight overall wear. No stamps, marks or writing - a clean copy.

[Here's the flap copy from a hardcover]:
The human race is at War with the "Buggers," an insect-like alien race. The first battle went badly, and now as Earth prepares to defend itself against the imminent threat of total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable alien enemy, all focus is on the development and training of military geniuses who can fight such a war, and win. The long distances of interstellar space have given hope to the defenders of Earth - they have time to train these future commanders up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high-orbital facility called the Battle School. Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. In this book, Card tells the story of another of those precious generals, the one they called Bean - the one who became Ender's right hand, his strategist, and his friend. One who was with him, part of his team, in the final battle against the Buggers. Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else's. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Bean's desperate struggle to live, and his success, brought him to the attention of the Battle School's recruiters, those people scouring the planet for leaders, tacticians, and generals to save Earth from the threat of alien invasion. Bean was sent into orbit, to the Battle School. And there he met Ender...