Wild Seed (Inscribed First Edition)
by Octavia E Butler
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385151608
- ISBN 13
- 9780385151603
- Seller
-
Tomball, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Stated First Edition/First Printing; A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by the author to the title page. An exceptional copy of this title, uncommon in this condition, particularly signed. This copy is in near fine condition with only light rubbing to the spine ends and lower edges, else fine; housed in a clean and bright near fine dust jacket that shows some light rubbing to the edges with a couple of tiny closed tears near the spine head, else a vibrant, fine jacket. Not remaindered, not price clipped ($10.00 intact), not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.
Synopsis
Wild Seed is the first book chronologically in the Patternist series, although it is the fourth published. The story centers around the main characters of Doro and Anyanwu, two immortals living in Africa. Doro is a spirit who can inhabit other people's bodies but kills them recklessly. He is breeding a race of superhumans, along with his son Issac. Anyanwu is a shapeshifting healer and one of the only beings Doro can't sense when she changes into an animal. Doro is compelled and threatened by her power, but she becomes repulsed by his callous murders. If they can work together, they have the true power to change the world. Butler's novel explores eugenics, the ethics of controlled evolution, and the creation of a black superrace through the same means colonists and enslavers used to promote white supremacy. Butler also portrayed a strong black female protagonist when they were nearly nonexistent in American literature.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3458
- Title
- Wild Seed (Inscribed First Edition)
- Author
- Octavia E Butler
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385151608
- ISBN 13
- 9780385151603
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- First Edition, Hardcover, Science Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA
Bryan H. Young D.V.M.dba Grayshelf Books, 19111 Desert Eagle Dr., Tomball, Tx 77377Email - bhydvm@gmail.comWe accept payment by Paypal, Visa, Mastercard, checks, or money orders.Texas residents please add 8% sales tax.We guarantee all books to be as described.Additional scans of books will be provided upon request.
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- Price Clipped
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- Rubbing
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