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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Richard Powers (illustrator). Ex-library. Sturdy binding with a hint of a lean in the spine but only light wear. Pages are clean and bright however there are library stamps on the front flyleaf, title page and the top edge of the text block. There is no evidence of a card pocket but there is some sticker residue at the base of the spine and around that area on the covers. No DJ as issued. Seller Inventory # 000340
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Richard Powers (illustrator). Ex-library copy. Printed on acid-free paper. Library rubber stamps, part of a library sticker on the back outer board; library card holder glued to the inner front board. Green magic marker line on the top of the book. Better condition than most ex-library books. No jacket, as issued. Seller Inventory # 102317
Book Description Richard Powers (illustrator). Boston: Gregg Press:, 1976. First American Hardcover edition, Near Fine sans dust jacket as issued, 222 pp. Head lightly dusted. This edition limited to 250 copies. First American Hardcover edition, Near Fine sans dust jacket as issued, Seller Inventory # 46184
Book Description Richard Powers (illustrator). Octavo, cloth. First U.S. hardcover edition, first printing (250 copies). "The Colindale Institute functions ostensibly to anticipate new developments in research so as to be in a position to encourage or suppress them. A major special project aims to generate a new messiah to better control the masses. The work is aided by a computer system capable of highly sophisticated, associative retrieval, and naturally, the computer nominate itself for the role of messiah." - Mowshowitz, p. 303. Text offset from that of the 1970 Hodder and Stoughton edition published as THE ELECTRIC CROCODILE. New introduction by David G. Hartwell. 1970 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-273. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#105838). Seller Inventory # 105838