Kindred by Octavia Butler, First Edition (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Beacon Edition; First Printing. Full number line. ; 264 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine (see description). Dust Jacket Condition: Fine (see description). Photo Cover (illustrator). First Edition. -----------( 1st printing of the First Edition ) hardcover, a Fine example, unread, in a Fine dustjacket, 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, ---"An original and eerily prophetic writer, Octavia E. Butler used the conventions of science fiction to explore the dangerous legacy of racism in America in harrowingly personal terms. She broke new ground with books that featured complex Black female protagonists I wrote myself in, she would later recall -establishing herself as one of thepioneers of the Afrofuturist aesthetic. In 1995 she became the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, in recognition of her achievement in creating new aspirations for the genre and for American literature. ---This 1st volume in the Library of America edition of Butler s collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre-Civil War past, where she ?nds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to preserve her own. In Fledgling, an amnesiac discovers that she is a vampire, with a difference: she is a new, experimental birth with brown skin, giving her the fearful ability to go out in sunlight. Rounding out the volume are eight short stories and five essays -including two never before collected, plus a newly researched chronology of Butler s life and career and helpful explanatory notes prepared by scholar Gerry Canavan. Butler s friend, the writer and editor Nisi Shawl, provides an introduction. "---, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- Size: 5w x 8.25h Inches. Not Signed. NOT Price Clipped.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. OEB classic. First paperback with mild cover markings otherwise very nice. Rare.

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.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Paperback Printing (Pocket, 1981). Stored in protective mylar bag. White cover with black titles are clean and bright with no rips or creases. Age toned on spine and bottom corner of back cover. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked with minor age toning. Quick, secure shipping with free delivery confirmation from Los Angeles bookstore. Photos available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very scarce early first edition from Butler. Ex library copy with card pocket on front endpaper; 4 tape-ghosts on front/back boards (none on interior pastedowns. Small letter "z" on top page edges which has been marked over with a green marker (about .3 inch). Jacket is quite nice but for bar-code sticker on back panel (see photo) so VG but would otherwise be near fine. Overall a nice tight square copy.

Hardcover. First Edition, Early Printing. Very Good, bound in 1/4 black cloth with rich brown paper-covered boards; with a Very Good dust jacket. Minimal edge wear and rubbing to jacket. A few small, weak stains to interior. Text is unmarked. 8vo, 8 1/2"h x 5 3/4"w. Scarce early printing of one of Butler's richest novels; also, the basis for the television series of the same name.

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.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 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.