Native Tongue por Suzette Haden Elgin - 1984

Brand: DAW, 1984-08-07. mass_market. Used: Good.

New York: DAW Books, Inc, 1984. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 7" X 4 1/8". 301pp. Moderate edgewear to pictorial paper wraps, featuring cover art by Jill Bauman. Creasing to corners and to spine. Slight lean to spine. Binding is sound. Previous owner's name to first page. Pages are gently age-toned, else clean and unmarked. Published in 1984, while Margaret Atwood was in the middle of writing The Handmaid's Tale, Native Tongue is the first in a dystopian trilogy that imagines a future America where women no longer have legal rights and the earth's financial wellbeing depends on a line of linguists who breed women to birth and to become ideal translators of alien languages before they send them to "Barren Houses." The women of the linguist lines, however, have for generations been secretly crafting a language of their own, a language of revolution. Professor of linguistics Patricia Anne Wilkins (1936-2015) began writing science fiction under the pen name Suzette Haden Elgin as a widowed single mother… Ler mais

New York: DAW, 1984. Soft cover. Very Good. First printing. Gently used; light wear to edges and corners. Mild surface wear to covers. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.

mass_market. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

DAW. Collectible - Good. Signed Copy Collectible - Good. Barbara Mertz's signature on front endpage. Barbara G. Mertz Rev Trust custom bookplate on front inside cover. This book formed part of Barbara G. Mertz's personal library at her home in Frederick, Maryland. (science fiction, dystopia, feminism)

New York: DAW Books, Inc, 1984. First Edition. Paperback. Very good +. First Edition. Paperback. First Printing, August 1984, with full number line. 7" X 4 1/8". 301pp, plus ads, including laid in Science Fiction Book Club mailer. Moderate edgewear to pictorial paper wraps, featuring cover art by Jill Bauman. Printer's error: raised red metallic title offset, covering tagline on front cover. Light creasing to spine. All edges yellow. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Published in 1984, while Margaret Atwood was in the middle of writing The Handmaid's Tale, Native Tongue is the first in a dystopian trilogy that imagines a future America where women no longer have legal rights and the earth's financial wellbeing depends on a line of linguists who breed women to birth and to become ideal translators of alien languages before they send them to "Barren Houses." The women of the linguist lines, however, have for generations been secretly crafting a language of their own, a… Ler mais

DAW, 1984-08-06. Mass Market Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!