Search Results: kindred by butler

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

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

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.

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.