Parable of the Sower SIGNED & Inscribed First Edition, First Printing, Octavia E. Butler, Four Walls Eight Windows 1993
Language: English
Published by Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, 1993
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Fengfamiily, Charlottetown, PE, CanadaFengfamiily
AbeBooks seller since August 15, 2026
Condition: Used - Near fine
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First edition, first printing of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower, published by Four Walls Eight Windows in October 1993. The copyright page confirms "A Four Walls Eight Windows First Edition," "First Printing October 1993," with the complete 1–10 number line. Inscribed, signed, and dated by Octavia E. Butler on the half-title page: "To Violet, Good reading, Octavia E. Butler, 2-2-95." The original dust jacket retains the publisher's $19.95 price and is protected in a fitted mylar cover. Condition is near fine or better. The book shows little to no sign of reading, with a firm, tight binding and clean boards and pages apart from the inscription. There is only the faintest trace of soiling to the bottom page block and a small, similarly faint smudge to the fore edge both barely visible even up close. The jacket shows a faint whitish, mottled area near the upper front, most noticeable at an angle; since the mylar hasn't been removed, it's unclear whether this is on the jacket itself or the mylar's underside. A tiny speck of dust is also visible beneath the cover. The first novel in Butler's acclaimed Earthseed series, Parable of the Sower is regarded as one of the defining works of modern speculative fiction a prescient story of environmental and social collapse in near-future California. Butler, a Hugo and Nebula Award winner and 1995 MacArthur Fellow, remains one of the most influential American science fiction writers of the past century. This is a genuinely exceptional example: true first edition, first printing, original priced jacket, an early inscription dated just over a year after publication, and outstanding overall condition.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Parable of the Sower SIGNED & Inscribed First Edition, First Printing, Octavia E. Butler, Four Walls Eight Windows 1993
- Author
- Butler, Octavia E.
- Publisher
- Four Walls Eight Windows, New York
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- Near fine
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
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