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On the inhospitable planet Geta, where only the strong survive, three creche-brothers of clan Kaiel are ordered by their ruler to ally with a heretical outlander and begin a ritual courtship whose outcome may be world changing
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Courtship Rite
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Timescape / SFBC, New York, 1982
ISBN 10: 0671440330
ISBN 13: 9780671440336
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Rowena Morrill (illustrator). Dust jacket has edge wear, small closed tears; now in new removable protective cover. Blue boards, with black print on tan spine.Ê Pages are clean and unmarked.Ê Timescape / Science Fiction Book Club hard cover with dust jacket, first printing Nov. 1982 (code M44), ISBN: 9780671440336, SFBC # 3102, 435 pages, cover art by RowenaÊ Morrill. 8vo (5.75Ó x 8.5Ó) Book club reissue of Timescape hard cover first edition. Winner, 1983 Compton Crook Award, and 1983 Locus Poll Award, Best First Novel.Ê Nominated, 1983 Hugo Award, 1995 Prometheus Award, Hall of Fame Award for Best Classic Libertarian SF Novel. Seller Inventory # 101515019780671440336gb
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0 Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 464 p. Audience: General/trade. Fine in very good dust jacket. very lightest of shelfwear, near fine. Seller Inventory # Alibris.0073074
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Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition / first printing (1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). Book is in fine condition with a fine unclipped dustjacket protected in a Brodart wrapper. An Attractive Copy! Please feel free to ask me for pictures or more information, Thanks. Seller Inventory # 014012
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Courtship Rite by Donald Kingsbury
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Rowena Morrill(Cover Artist) Rowena Morrill(Cover Artist) (illustrator). First Edition. Courtship Rite by Donald Kingsbury A tight clean copy. Pictorial dust jacket. Minor edgewear. Not price-clipped. First Edition with number line. BOOK. Seller Inventory # HCX18722-10
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Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. "A vibrant good-tempered saga about cannibalism and group marriages and war and greathearted death rituals and family dominated politics and explosive cultural breakthroughs, all played out against the harsh tapestries of a world not entirely unlike Dune's." - John Clute. A well-handled tale of imaginary anthropology." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 80. Issued simultaneously in trade paperback and hardcover formats; only 2000 hardbound copies were prepared. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-602. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with a small rub mark to front panel. (#155397). Seller Inventory # 155397
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Courtship Rite
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition hardcover inscribed to the title page by Kingsbury. Very near fine condition; the DJ spine is lightly sunned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 464 pages; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 51771
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Courtship Rite
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Courtship Rite
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Rowena Morrill, dj art (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s). The dust jacket is unclipped ($17.50). 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 number line. Signed by the author on the title page. Seller Inventory # 005333
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. "An unusually detailed and complex novel, interesting because of its carefully worked political and anthropological themes." Barron; Anatomy of Wonder 4, 4-234. Hugo nominee, 1983. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Book. Seller Inventory # 051973