9780399123795 - Transfigurations / by Michael Bishop by Bishop, Michael (22 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Putnam Publishing Group January 1979 Hardcover with jacket. Book Club Edition. Crisp and clean copy with tight binding.

Condition: Very Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, July 13 (SALE Item)* first edition, inscribed by Michael Bishop at the title page; 362 pp., hardcover, very good in an edge-rubbed dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. Book Club edition, J51. (Science Fiction) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mike Hinge (jacket) (illustrator). First Edition. Berkley Publishing Corporation / G. P. Putnam's Sons 1979.Hardcover. 0399123792 . First edition. Novel expanded from the author's 1973 novella "Death and Designation Among the Asadi". 362 pages. Owner's name stamped to the top edge, slight cocking to spine, light bumping to the lower right corner of the front board in very good jacket with edge wear, and fraying/wear/creasing to the spine head. See photos clph.

Hardcover. book club ed. very good condition; NOVI000272.

hardcover. BCE edition. B030149; 311 pp, owner's inscription on front end page hardcover, dustjacket very good, contents very good, prev.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. First Editiion. INSCRIBED COPY.FIRST PRINTING. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Book club edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate loosening to binding. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. With an illustrated bookplate signed by Bishop laid-in. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($10.95), soiled at the front panel as if text from another jacket transferred onto the flap, soiled at the back panel. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Bishop's novelization of his Nebula Award-nominated novella "Death and Designation Among the Asadi.". Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed, with no personalization or inscription, by author Michael Bishop on its title page. No statement of edition or printing on its copyright page, with "7910" (October 1979) and publisher's original "$10.95" price on its jacket's front flap ? so a first edition (per ISFDB.) This book is in fine condition. Its binding is sound and square, with no spine crease. Covers are unmarked and unworn, with bright gilt titles on its spine. Page are unworn and -- other than Bishop's signature -- unmarked. Not a remainder. Its dust jacket, now protected by a removable mylar cover, is in very good condition: whole and bright, with traces of wear at ends of spine and front flap fold, plus some soiling on its white back. I will ship this book in a moisture proof zip-loc bag, padded in bubble wrap, inside a sturdy box to assure it reaches its new owner in the same condition as my description. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Signed by Bishop at the title page. Blue boards with gold spine titling, very good with edgewear, including bumped spine ends and point of fraying to front corner of spine head. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket good in Mylar with moderate scuffing and edgewear, including a few closed tears, sporadic minor chipping along edges, and a larger chip to front corner of spine foot. Text unmarked. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED, inscribed, and dated by author on title page. A handwritten letter to the inscribee is laid in. No edition stated (1st edition, 1st printing). Price clipped. 362 p. Audience: General/trade. Some wear and chipping to edges of dust jacket, now protected by mylar sleeve. By the Nebula-winning author of 'No Enemy But Time' and 'Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Dust jacket art by Mike Hinge. As new, never read.

Octavo, boards. First edition. Novel expanded from the novella "Death and Designation Among the Asadi," a Nebula Award finalist. "About a daughter's quest to find her anthropologist father in the forbidding ritualistic culture of the natives of an alien planet. A highly literate narrative which makes good use of its imaginary anthropology." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 386. "One of the more impressive SF novels using perspectives and themes drawn from anthropology to aid depiction of an enigmatic alien culture." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-127. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with light dust soiling to rear panel. (#91875).

Octavo, boards. First edition. Novel expanded from the novella "Death and Designation Among the Asadi," a Nebula Award finalist. "About a daughter's quest to find her anthropologist father in the forbidding ritualistic culture of the natives of an alien planet. A highly literate narrative which makes good use of its imaginary anthropology." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 386. "One of the more impressive SF novels using perspectives and themes drawn from anthropology to aid depiction of an enigmatic alien culture." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-127. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#168791).

Hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). SF novel:expanded from the novella ''Death and Designation Among the Asadi,'' a Nebula Award finalist. Faint spotting along top page edges, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Fine in very good plus dust jacket. Dustwrapper slightly browned and rubbed on back cover.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. First Edition. About fine in dj. (2 tiny soil specks at top edge).

Hardcover, with pictorial dustjacket by Mike Hinge. 362 p. -very good.-(Minor wear on the corners and edges of the dustjacke, but otherwise in very good condition. Block square, binding solid, pages bright and clean. Very collectible copy.). ISBN 0399123792.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Mike Hinge (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed on Title page. Straight, secure spine. Clean interiors. Square corners. Chipping to spine. Light scuffing to dust jacket corners. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Octavo, boards. First edition. A presentation copy with a warm signed inscription by Bishop on the title page to David G. Hartwell, Bishop's major book editor and the one responsible for purchasing this book for publication by Berkley/Putnam: "For the Hartwells, / Dave, you got me through the first / third of the new section, then took off / for another publishing house. / Fortunately, I was able to follow -- / just not, in this case, soon / enough / Mike / March 11, 1981." Also signed in full on the title page by Bishop. Novel expanded from the novella "Death and Designation Among the Asadi," a Nebula Award finalist. "About a daughter's quest to find her anthropologist father in the forbidding ritualistic culture of the natives of an alien planet. A highly literate narrative which makes good use of its imaginary anthropology." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, p. 386. "One of the more impressive SF novels using perspectives and themes drawn from anthropology to aid depiction of an enigmatic alien culture." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-127. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. The most important copy of this book. (#158781). Signed.