Wild Seed by Butler, Octavia E - 1980

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Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co Inc, 1980. Clean and tight. Sharp corners. Slight slant. Ex-library copy with a clean pocket on the last page. Withdrawn stamped on the title page and on the inside of the back cover. Library number stamped on the title page. Faint tape marks on the boards. Library name stamped on the tiptop of the pages. Dark red.brown boards with white lettering on the spine. Stated First Edition. Code K23 on page 246. Doubleday Science Fiction. The dust jacket does not have any library markings on it and has very little shelfwear. The jacket is in new mylar.. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible-Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Science Fiction.

Doubleday Publishing, 1980. 1. Hardcover. Good. Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and glossy with no tears, just a couple of scratches to the back, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Moderate wear to the boards; Light foxing to the textblock edges; The first and last endpapers have been replaced with matching endsheets, and there is a very faint watermark to the 2nd and 3rd front endpapers, otherwise the endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; Good binding; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 0.7 lbs; Light green dust jacket with title in black lettering; 1980, Doubleday Publishing; 248 pages; "Wild Seed," by Octavia E. Butler.

Doubleday Publishing, 1980. 1. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Stated First Edition; Dust jacket is clean and glossy overall with minor edgewear and a couple very small tears to the base of the spine area of the jacket, and jacket has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 0.7 lbs; Light green dust jacket with title in black lettering; 1980, Doubleday Publishing; 248 pages; "Wild Seed," by Octavia E. Butler.

Doubleday , July 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Good/Good. Stated first edition; light edgewear to dust jacket, minor scuffing to covers, name of former owners inscribed on ffep, book block otherwise clean and square, binding good.

Doubleday, 1980-07-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8x5x0. Signed by Author. Signed and inscribed by Octavia E. Butler on title page. Stated first edition. Published by Doubleday, 1980. Hardcover in jacket, price intact on jacket flap. Clean and bright. No remainder spray. Binding strong and square. Slightest rubbing to jacket. Appears unread. Lovely copy in fine condition. Jacket now in fresh Mylar. Additional photos available upon request.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1980. First edition. Very good plus in a very good jacket.. Signed first printing of the fourth book in the Patternist series - inscribed to the owner of an important Black bookstore. Taking place chronologically first in the epic storyline that first helped make Butler's reputation, this story of two African immortals explores themes of power through patriarchy/matriarchy, racism and eugenics, and utopias/dystopias. Ruth Salvaggio calls the protagonist of WILD SEED, Anyanwu, "the inspiring force for all of Butler's heroines." Publishing at a time when most of the best known science-fiction writers were white men (with a number of important exceptions that demonstrate the rule), Butler consciously brought her Own Voices experience to her books as a African-American woman: WILD SEED is both a tremendous work and a powerful model that continues to influence countless writers after her. This copy inscribed to Yvette La Roy, owner of Liberty House, a… Read More

New York: Doubleday, 1980. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket, with no remainder spray, as is often found with this book and just a minor bump at the base of spine. Very sharp copy.. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Fourth novel published in the PATTERNIST series, although, chronologically first in the story. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY BUTLER on the title page. An Amazon Prime series based on the book is in-the-works, being produced by Viola Davis and being co-written by award-winning sci-fi novelist Nnedi Okorafor, with filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu, slated to direct. Considered by most fans to be the best novel in the PATTERNIST series. Listed as one of Pringle's SCIENCE FICTION: THE 100 BEST NOVELS. PLEASE NOTE that all our First Editions are also First Printings, unless we specifically note otherwise. All our dust jackets are protected in clear mylar covers.

Stated First Edition/First Printing; A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by the author to the title page. An exceptional copy of this title, uncommon in this condition, particularly signed. This copy is in near fine condition with only light rubbing to the spine ends and lower edges, else fine; housed in a clean and bright near fine dust jacket that shows some light rubbing to the edges with a couple of tiny closed tears near the spine head, else a vibrant, fine jacket. Not remaindered, not price clipped ($10.00 intact), not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.

Doubleday, January 1980. First Edition stated. Hardcover . Used - fine/Fine. “First Edition” stated. Signed by author on title page. Fine in unclipped dust jacket and happily a copy without the remainder spray.