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14 BUTLER, Octavia E. Dawn. Xenogenesis. New York: Warner Books, 1987 signed copy First edition, signed by the author on the title page. This is the first novel in the Lilith’s Brood trilogy, each of which was nominated for a Locus award. Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed green paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, green endpapers. A fine copy in near-fine jacket, spine ends just creased, a touch of foxing to verso. £1,250 [157638] 15 BUTLER, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993 “the only lasting truth is change. god is change” First edition, signed by the author on the half-title. Parable of the Sower won the New York Times’s Notable Book of the Year in 1994 and was nominated for the 1995 Nebula Award. It is the first in an unfinished series of novels, followed by Parable of the Talents (1998). Octavo. Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Title page printed in black and white on grey paper. A few spots of foxing to edges. A near-fine copy in fine jacket. £1,250 [157637]
2017), British literary critic and professor of English literature at the University of Cambridge. To Build a Castle was published in Russian the following year under the title And the Wind Returns , by Chalidze in New York. A Soviet dissident, human rights campaigner, and vehement critic of Vladimir Putin, Bukovsky exposed the Soviet use of psychiatry against political prisoners, having himself spent a total of 12 years in Soviet prisons, labour camps, and psychiatric hospitals.
Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt. With dust jacket. Head of spine just bumped, tiny mark to fore edge. A fine copy in near-fine jacket, corners a touch rubbed and nicked. £1,000 [157331] 13 BUTLER, Octavia E. Patternmaster. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976 an inscribed copy of the author’s debut First edition, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Michael the collector, best wishes, Octavia E. Butler”; inscribed copies of this title are uncommon. Butler was the first Black woman to receive both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and the first science fiction author to be granted a MacArthur fellowship. This was her debut novel, the first book in the Patternist quintet, though chronologically the last. Octavo. Original beige leatherette, spine lettered in black, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Rubbing to spine ends, covers clean, short closed tear to lower margin of pp. 55–6, pale damp stain to upper margin of latter half of contents, ripple to head of rear endpapers; a very good copy indeed in like jacket, spine sunned, a few marks to rear panel, edges gently rubbed and creased, not price-clipped, very sharp and fresh. ¶ Amanda Boulter, “Polymorphous Futures”, American Bodies, Cultural Histories of the Physique , 1996. £3,000 [156706]
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