9780941423991 - Parable of the Sower by Butler, Octavia E (20 results)

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Condition: Good. Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers. 0.95.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Third printing. 299 pages. Black boards with gold spine titles, very good with light edgewear, lightly bumped spine tips. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket has light dampstaining along top margin of rear panel and inner flap, at verso; no aesthetic effect on the illustrated side. DJ lightly edgeworn, protected in Mylar. Pages bright, text unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ex-Library. Ex-library. Book has a slight cock to spine, scuffing/tearing to outer 1/3 of endpapers, partial library markings to back endpage, a light split in binding between front endpages, light rubbing and faint smudges to covers, modest wear to bottom edges with scuffs, light bumps to outer corners. in good condition due to ex-libary markings and cosmetic/aging wear, otherwise binding is intact with no missing pages, text remains unmarked with bright interiors. Dust jacket has light rubbing, light wear to top/bottom edges, fading to spine. in very good condition, now in archival cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good hardcover in a Good dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing with the full number line. Ex-library copy with the usual markings. The text is clean and bright. 299 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VERY GOOD condition DUST JACKET: Minor wear & tear to top and bottom edges of spine, panels, folds and flaps. Very small chip to top outside corner, front panel. Minor staining to top edge, reverse. BOARDS: Shelf rubbing to bottom edges, primarily at spine. BOOK: Light foxing to textblock page edges, primarily head and foredge. Several small spots/smudges to outside edge of FFEP. Please inspect photos closelfy for condition details. ********************** Here on offer is a very nice copy of Octavia Butler's award-winning novel, Parable of the Sower, the first in the Parable series and the winner of the New York Times "Notable Book of the Year" award in 1994. This copy is a 1st trade edition, 1st printing of the work published by Four Walls Eight Windows in 1993. The dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve. **************************************** "This acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from an award-winning author 'pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale' and includes a foreword by N. K. Jemisin (John Green, New York Times). ***** When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy, a debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions. ***** Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith . . . and a startling vision of human destiny." ///////////////////////////////////////// Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction author and a multiple recipient of the Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. ///// Born in Pasadena, California, Butler was raised by her widowed mother. Extremely shy as a child, Butler found an outlet at the library reading fantasy, and in writing. She began writing science fiction as a teenager. Butler attended community college during the Black Power movement. While participating in a local writer's workshop, she was encouraged to attend the Clarion Workshop, then held in Pennsylvania, which focused on science fiction. ///// She soon sold her first stories and by the late 1970s had become sufficiently successful as an author to be able to write full-time. Her books and short stories drew the favorable attention of the public, and awards soon followed. She also taught writer's workshops, and eventually relocated to Washington. Butler died of a stroke at the age of 58. Her papers are held in the research collection of the Huntington Library in Southern California. ********** The above text was taken from, respectively, Grand Central publishing (via Google Books) and Wikipedia.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. First printing. Full number line. A masterful dystopian novel, told through a series of journal entries written by a Black teenager, Lauren Oya Olamina, who develops a revolutionary belief system known as Earthseed. The first of Butler's two Parable novels, followed by "Parable of the Talents" (2006).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 299pp, Black board binding, gold lettering on spine, slight bump at bottom corner tips of cover and lower spine edge, no names or markings in text; stated first editon, Glossy dust jacket looks nearly new and has 19.95 price on front flap, California, 2025, her community overrun by violent people addicted to a dangerous drug, Lauren Olamina sets out on foot heading north.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition, First Printing. Textured black paper-covered boards with gilt stamped particulars and publisher's emblem to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text block is lightly soiled. Boards are clean and bright; lower corners and ends of spine bumped. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket is clean and bright with very light curling to extremities, corners and ends of spine. Dust jacket is covered in a protective mylar jacket.

Hardcover. First Edition / First Printing. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. First edition, first printing with complete number line on copyright page. First installment in Butler's excellent, two-book dystopian Earthseed series. 8vo, dark boards with gilt lettering on spine. 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. Fine in fine unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed First Edition, First Printing of this modern speculative fiction classic with uncanny and unsettling insights into the shape of the world in its three-decades-into-the future starting point: 2024. Spoiler alert: climate change was real. Signed by Octavia Butler on the half title page. Has a hint of foxing on the page edges. No sign of previous use. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. Stated first printing, with full numberline. SIGNED by the author with a personalized inscription on the half-title page. Name label of former owner on the front pastedown. DJ with minor fading on the spine. A near fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. A superb signed copy of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower. Parable of the Sower, 1993, Four Walls Eight Windows, first edition, first print, Signed by Octavia E. Butler (signature only). Condition: Fine (close to Very Fine). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by Octavia E. Butler on title page. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Design by Stark Design (illustrator). 1st Edition 1st Printing. This is an uncorrected proof in pictorial wraps of the First Edition. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 number line. Enclosed is a letter from Dan Simon, Co-Publisher, stating that the copy of this proof has been sent to the recipient.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. **INSCRIBED** Near fine hardcover in very good unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed to well known Texas bookseller. Jacket has some scoring to front cover. Straight, secure spine with tight hinges and clean interiors. Slight bumping to spine ends. Inscribed by Author(s).