Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0385121970I4N00
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 186 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price present. Light gray boards stamped in black. Dust jacket chipped and rubbed with largest loss to bottom of front panel near spine. 2" closed tear to top edge of front panel near spine. Light spotting to verso. Spine ends of boards slightly crushed, binding sound, remainder spray to bottom edges, and bit of foxing along top. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper and light foxing with some faint staining to preliminaries and title page, but otherwise text legible and unmarked throughout. Butler's first book and fourth chronologically in the Patternmaster series. Quickly becoming scarce in retail. Seller Inventory # 11347
Seller: Chris Grobel, Arlington, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Doubleday (NY) 1976 First Edition (stated), First Printing. Very Good in paper covered boards (slight lean, previous owner name stamped on the bottom edge of the page block property of U.S. Navy ) in a Good DJ with edge wear at the head and foot of the spine, on the corner tips, light soiling. Not price clipped the original $5.95 remains intact. The author s first book. This copy is not a library book, no markings except the stamp on the bottom edge. Seller Inventory # ABE-1695503763769
Seller: Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc., State College, PA, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. DJ with mild edgewear or bumping. Mild general wear. Pages clean. Binding sound. Mild shelf wear. Surface-level scratching on cover in a couple of spots. Seller Inventory # mon0000133349
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. Stated first. DJ shows minor wear and slight chipping at the corners and spine ends. Bumped corners. Initials of former owner on the front free endpaper. Pages clean. Seller Inventory # mon0003561858
Seller: Chancery Hill Books, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. First edition stated; code G 24 present on page 185, as apparently required. Book is very clean and sharp; spine ends unbumped, and clear of any markings except for the typical remainder speckling on bottom edge. Jacket has a couple of minor flaws mostly around the edges: a bit of wear at base of spine, minor spotting on rear panel; a stain of some sort at the top of the front panel above P. Not ex-library. Butler's first book: a collectible title from an important author. Seller Inventory # 001204
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition, first state with "G24" in the gutter of page 185. Hint of wear the spine ends and usual light speckled purple remainder mark on bottom edge, else fine in very good dust wrapper with creases to front panel, tear with internal tape repair and some general edgwear. Butler's first book about a future society of telepaths. Seller Inventory # 549699
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: Fair. SIGNED! Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. 1st edition. 8vo gray cloth with black spine lettering. 186pp. Signed by the author on title page. Fair ex-library copy in a Good dust jacket. Mid-Continent Public Library stamps to the top and bottom edge, copyright page. Library pocket and plates removed. Dampstained along the top edge of each page. Jacket moderately shelfworn, sunned, with some abrasion where the flaps where once affixed to the pastedowns. From the collection of science fiction and fantasy writer, editor, publisher and prolific book reviewer D. Douglas Fratz. (science fiction, fantasy, telepathy, healers, inheritance) Inquire if you need further information. Seller Inventory # MA05A-08878
Seller: Bookshelf of Maine, Franklin, ME, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Book has a touch of bumping to top and bottom spine and one corner - if one looks closely. Same is true of spine also slightly rubbed. Light foxing to top of edge of textblock. ; Both book and dustjacket are in excellent condition - would make a wonderful and special gift; and certainly of particular interest to collectors ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 186 pages. Seller Inventory # 7448
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first book. See Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-103. Light purple remainder spray to bottom edge of text block, else a nearly fine copy in fine dust jacket with a 15 mm closed tear at the upper edge of the front panel and mild rubs at spine ends and front corner tips. A very nice copy. (#168266). Seller Inventory # 168266