For 4,000 years, an immortal has spread the seeds of a master race, using the downtrodden as his private breeding stock. But now a young ghetto telepath has found a way to awaken--and rule--her superhuman kind, igniting a psychic battle as she challenges her creator for her right to free her people.
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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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Seller: Preferred Books, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book has light wear, dust jacket has edge wear. Sharp corners. Remainder spray to bottom text block, foxing to text block. Solid tight binding and clean white pages. Closed tear to rear panel. A solid copy. Owners stamp to first blank page. NOT Ex-library. Dust jacket priced at $6.95. Seller Inventory # 013972
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Seller: Preferred Books, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book has light wear, dust jacket has edge wear. Solid tight binding and clean white pages. Two stains to front inside DJ as pictured. A solid copy. Priced dust jacket at $6.95. NOT Ex-library. Seller Inventory # 013906
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Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. First edition. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Slanting to spine. Wear to inside hinge. Dust jacket wrapped in protective sleeve. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.92. Seller Inventory # 1560524195
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Seller: Anthony Clark, Wolfville, NS, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Doubleday Science Fiction, New York, 1977, Hardcover, reprint - assumed First Edition/Second or later Printing - missing the'First Edition' designate. Pre-sequel to Butler's first novel 'Patternmaster'. Book Condition: Very Near Fine, but with some pin points of wear at the very bottom of the spine and two unfortunate previous owner's rubber stamps/signatures and purchase date stamps, on the front paste-down (just under the dj flap) and the ffep. also Doubleday's remainder spray on the bottom text block - internally clean, tight and it appears unread. Dust jacket has a very light wraparound; some faint discoloration at the spine - very light; touch of wear at the front corners and a 1/2 inch closed tear at the rear, just behind the spine, otherwise a Near Fine minus jacket - comes in a removable, archival, mylar sleeve - quite a nice copy for it's forty-four plus years, and quite scarce. Seller Inventory # 001110
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Seller: HM Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition of the second book in Butler's Patternist series. Clean, tight binding with very light shelf wear bottom and top at spine. Dust Jacket is clean with light shelf wear at spine. There are price sticker adhesive remnants at bottom spine and inside front flap with an additional small price sticker at top of inside front flap. This is the prequel to Butler's first published novel, Patternmaster. Seller Inventory # 56
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Seller: Tall Stories Book & Print Gallery, ROCK HILL, SC, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Very good hardcover in near fine unclipped dust jackets. Cleaned ex-lib with new endpapers. Straight, secure spine with tight hinges and clean interiors. Light shelf wear to bottom edge. Seller Inventory # ABE-1668206940103
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Seller: dsmbooks, Liverpool, United Kingdom
hardcover. Condition: Like New. Like New. book. Seller Inventory # D8S0-3-M-038512600X-3
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