Patternmaster - Hardcover
The Patternist is a telepathic race, commanded by the Patternmaster, whose thoughts can destroy, heal, rule. Coransee, son of the ruling Patternmaster, wants the throne and will stop at nothing to get it, including venture into the wild mutant-infested hills to destroy a young apprentice--his equal and his brother. Previously out of print.
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Octavia E. Butler is author of many novels, including Adulthood Rites and The Parable of the Sower. She is the winner of the Nebula Award and twice winner of the Hugo Award.
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date1976
- ISBN 10 0385121970
- ISBN 13 9780385121972
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages186
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Ex-library with tape marks to boards, cement stains to front and rear free endpapers, ink number stamp to half-title page, rear fixed endpaper damaged from removal of old jacket protector. Binding remains tight and square. Dust jacket NEAR FINE with a light ripple or two. Seller Inventory # 23-11 diggs sf butler
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Doubleday (NY) 1976 First Edition (stated), First Printing. Very Good in paper covered boards (slight lean, previous owner name stamped on the bottom edge of the page block property of U.S. Navy ) in a Good DJ with edge wear at the head and foot of the spine, on the corner tips, light soiling. Not price clipped the original $5.95 remains intact. The author s first book. This copy is not a library book, no markings except the stamp on the bottom edge. Seller Inventory # ABE-1695503763769
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. DJ with mild edgewear or bumping. Mild general wear. Pages clean. Binding sound. Mild shelf wear. Surface-level scratching on cover in a couple of spots. Seller Inventory # mon0000133349
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition, first state with "G24" in the gutter of page 185. Hint of wear the spine ends and usual light speckled purple remainder mark on bottom edge, else fine in very good dust wrapper with creases to front panel, tear with internal tape repair and some general edgwear. Butler's first book about a future society of telepaths. Seller Inventory # 549699
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Book Description Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 186 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price present. Light gray boards stamped in black. Dust jacket chipped and rubbed with largest loss to bottom of front panel near spine. 2" closed tear to top edge of front panel near spine. Light spotting to verso. Spine ends of boards slightly crushed, binding sound, remainder spray to bottom edges, and bit of foxing along top. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper and light foxing with some faint staining to preliminaries and title page, but otherwise text legible and unmarked throughout. Butler's first book and fourth chronologically in the Patternmaster series. Quickly becoming scarce in retail. Seller Inventory # 11347
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Book Description Condition: Fair. SIGNED! Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. 1st edition. 8vo gray cloth with black spine lettering. 186pp. Signed by the author on title page. Fair ex-library copy in a Good dust jacket. Mid-Continent Public Library stamps to the top and bottom edge, copyright page. Library pocket and plates removed. Dampstained along the top edge of each page. Jacket moderately shelfworn, sunned, with some abrasion where the flaps where once affixed to the pastedowns. From the collection of science fiction and fantasy writer, editor, publisher and prolific book reviewer D. Douglas Fratz. (science fiction, fantasy, telepathy, healers, inheritance) Inquire if you need further information. Seller Inventory # MA05A-08878
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st. Book has a touch of bumping to top and bottom spine and one corner - if one looks closely. Same is true of spine also slightly rubbed. Light foxing to top of edge of textblock. ; Both book and dustjacket are in excellent condition - would make a wonderful and special gift; and certainly of particular interest to collectors ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 186 pages. Seller Inventory # 7448
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Book Description Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first book. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-103. Light purple remainder spray to bottom edge of text block, else a nearly fine copy in fine dust jacket with a 15 mm closed tear at the upper edge of the front panel and mild rubs at spine ends and front corner tips. A very nice copy. (#168266). Seller Inventory # 168266
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. "First Edition" on its copyright page, and 1st printing code "G24" (June 1976) on page 185. Inscribed and signed on its title page, "To Ross -- Best Wishes" / "Octavia E. Butler". This book is in very good condition, marred only by remainder spray on bottom edge of its text block, light bumps on its spine ends, and some traces of soiling on top edge of its text block. Its binding is sound and square, with no spine crease. Covers and pages are otherwise unmarked and unworn. Its dust jacket, now protected by a removable mylar cover, is in very good+ condition: whole and bright, marred only by some traces of light soiling on its back, and traces of wear on ends of spine and front flap fold, but otherwise unmarked and unworn. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 003029
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. **INSCRIBED to well known Texas bookseller** Near fine hardcover with small square sticker residue to front free endpaper and very good unclipped dust jacket with closed tear and wrinkle to bottom front flap. Toning to the full length underside of dust jacket. Minor wear to outer extremities and rem spray to bottom page edge. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # ABE-1668203149526
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