Sheep Look Up
by Brunner, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/Good+
- Seller
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pdx, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Text Unmarked.Spine has title, author and publisher in black. top of spine of book shows wear, Previous owner name and date recto free endpaper. Ink x verso rear endpaper top. Dust jacket missing small piece top front, shows wear along spine, top and bottom, discolor along spine and front cover. pages, tho dappled, show ageing.. But its a hell of a story to see what our future looked like in 1972 and what's it like today.,Quite a good read
Synopsis
The Sheep Look Up is a science fiction novel by British author John Brunner, first published in 1972. The novel's setting is decidedly dystopian, the book dealing with the deterioration of the environment in the United States. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1972. The title of the novel is a quotation from the poem Lycidas by John Milton: The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ...
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Details
- Bookseller
- acs books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3606
- Title
- Sheep Look Up
- Author
- Brunner, John
- Format/Binding
- Green cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- book club edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Pages
- 425
- Size
- 6' x 8 1/2"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Brunner sheep zanzibar look climate harper overpopulation environment rocky mountains
- Bookseller catalogs
- scifi;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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sale of my collection of books from my 41 years in the book business.
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- Verso
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.