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Beacon Press, 1988. First Beacon. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Slight wear from storage..

First edition/all numbers, appears unread, slightest outer wear. Graphic novel adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings.

Library of America, 2020. 774 pages. Includes ribbon marker.. 1st Priinting. Hard Cover. VG to Fine/Very Good. Stories.

NY: Library of America , 2020. 1st thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 774 pages, this includes: Kindred, Fledgling, and the following storie:. Childfinder; Crossover; Near of Kin; Speech Sounds; Bloodchild; Amnesty; Book of Martha; The Evening and the Morning and the Night;--- Essays include: Lost Races of Science Fiction; Positive Obsession; Furor Scribendi; The Monophobic Response; Preface to Bloodchild and Other Stories --- Chronology; Notes on the Text; Notes Remainder dot to bottom edge otherwise a bright, clean copy. Record # 383461

New York, NY: N.Y. / New York: The Library of America ( Penguin Random House Distributors ), 2020, 1st Edition, First Printing , 2020. -----------( 1st printing of the First Edition ) hardcover, a Fine example, unread, in a Fine dustjacket, 774 pages, this includes: Kindred, Fledgling, and the following storie:. Childfinder; Crossover; Near of Kin; Speech Sounds; Bloodchild; Amnesty; Book of Martha; The Evening and the Morning and the Night;--- Essays include: Lost Races of Science Fiction; Positive Obsession; Furor Scribendi; The Monophobic Response; Preface to Bloodchild and Other Stories --- Chronology; Notes on the Text; Notes, ---"An original and eerily prophetic writer, Octavia E. Butler used the conventions of science fiction to explore the dangerous legacy of racism in America in harrowingly personal terms. She broke new ground with books that featured complex Black female protagonists I wrote myself in, she would later recall -establishing herself as one of thepioneers of the… Ler mais

Washington, D.C.: The Library of America, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. The first appearance in book form of some of Butler's collected stories and essays alongside her classic KINDRED and FLEDGLING in the first printing of The Library of America edition, cementing her reputation as an American literary figure. Original blue gilt-stamped cloth in the eggshell white slipcase in the publisher's slipcase, never opened.

NY: Quality Paperbacks Book Club. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1999. 1st Thus. Softcover. 0965089662 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 948 pages .

Pocket Books, 1981. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.First printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Crease to bottom corner of front cover. Internally clean. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Folio Society,, 2019. 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and 6 coloured illustrations (one double-page); pictorial boards, backstrip lettered in silver and blue, a near fine copy in publisher's pictorial board slip-case.

Beacon Press, 2004. Fine. From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur "Genius" Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. "I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm." Dana's torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner's plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present. Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi… Ler mais

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1979. First edition of Butler's classic bestselling novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Steve Best wishes Octavia E. Butler." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Larry Schwinger. Jacket typography by Elizabeth Levine. First editions of this classic Butler novel are scarce, signed examples exceedingly so. In this spellbinding novel, Octavia E. Butler has written a closely observed, intensely felt account of a young black woman who is drawn irresistibly into her family's past. Superimposing a fully realized historical chronicle on the classic science fiction premise, Kindred explores the dynamics and dilemmas of antebellum slavery from the sensibility of a late 20th-century black woman who finds herself being shuttled through time, existing at times in her Los Angeles, California home, and at others on her ancestor's pre-Civil War Maryland plantation.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1979. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Octavia E. Butler on the title page and inscribed to former owners. Bound in publisher's brown paper-covered boards over black spine cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with wear to rear cover, two diagonal creases to the front free endpaper and half-title page, slight odor to pages. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light soiling, toning, light worming and light edge wear. An extremely scarce title, even more so signed.