Patternmaster by Butler Octavia, Signed (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as issued. Clyde Caldwell, cover art. (illustrator). 1st Paperback Edition. Signed by Author(s). This is the first Paperback Edition of this book (Avon Number 41806, $1.75) First Edition stated. Signed by the author on the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Tim and Steve Quay (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s). The book has foxing to the top of the page block and remainder spray to the bottom. First Edition stated. Unclipped dust jacket ($5.95) has tiny pieces missing and wear to the extremities. Signed by the author on the title page. The author's first book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. **SIGNED** Very good hardcover in near fine unclipped dust jacket. NO rem spray. Cleaned ex lib copy, fresh endpapers. Straight, secure spine with tight hinges and clean interiors. This is the author's first novel. Signed by Author(s).

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).

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Original light gray cloth (hardcover) in mylar protected dust-jacket, (8.5 x 5.75 inches). First edition (stated on copyright page), review copy of Butler's first novel with Doubleday's review copy slip laid in. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on title page, "To Joe / the collector / Best Wishes Octavia E. Butler (signed)." A clean, tight and bright copy in an unclipped jacket ($5.95) showing some minor wear to front panel upper right corner. A highly collectable and desirable copy of a SIGNED review copy/first edition of her first novel by the Hugo and Nebula-winning author. Signed by Author(s).

Signed by Octavia Butler on title page in ink, inscribed to former owner, "To Kathy the collector." [iv], 202, [2] pp. Wraps. Second printing. Near Fine with light wear. A signed sci-fi novel by the Hugo and Nebula-winning author.

[vi], 186 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition of the author's first book. [vi], 186 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Octavia Butler's first novel, inscribed by her on the title page, "To Deane / Best Wishes / Octavia E. Butler." She would later write three prequels to Patternmaster that detail a secret history of telepathic mind control and alien plagues from Ancient Egypt through the distant future. Grey boards, spine titled in black. Remainder spray on bottom edge. Fine in fine jacket by Tim and Steve Quay (faintest traces of wear at top and tail of spine panel) First edition of the author's first book.

First editions, first printings, a rare complete set, signed by the author on the title page of Wild Seed and inscribed in Clay's Ark, "To Yvette, Best wishes, Octavia E. Butler". The recipient was Yvette Le Roy, founder of Liberty House in Harlem. Her store sold handcrafts produced by the Mississippi co-operative Poor People's Corporation and hosted poetry readings by Gwendolyn Brooks and Nikki Giovanni. Including Butler's debut novel Patternmaster, the series charts the ascendance of the paranormal race of patternists, led by the patternmaster, from their origins in ancient times to the far future where they rule over the diseased Clayarks and ordinary humans ("Mutes"). "Much of the power of the sequence derives from the chargedness and cognitive focus occasioned by her background and punishing early experiences in urban California, a confluence of influences and incarcerations [that] seems to have underwritten - as with other writers who were non-white - the tough embodiedness of the characters she created" (SFE). Butler was the first Black woman to receive both the Nebula and Hugo awards, as well as being the first science fiction author to be granted a MacArthur fellowship. Her work "creates powerful images of black women in a genre in which and from which they have traditionally been marginalized and excluded" (Boutler, p. 170). Amanda Boulter, "Polymorphous Futures", American Bodies: Cultural Histories of the Physique, 1996. Five works, octavo. Original variously coloured boards lettered on the spines. With dust jackets. Occasional bump, minor rubbing, foxing to endpapers, Patternmaster front inner hinge just starting; jackets unclipped, gentle spine fading, creasing to edges, a couple of short closed tears, presenting well: a near-fine set in very good jackets.