Wild Seed
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980.
First edition, first printing, advance review copy with publisher's slip laid. Signed by Octavia Butler on the front free endpaper and inscribed to collector Larry Verre, "Good Reading." [viii], 248 pp. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth affect boards with spine lettered in light purple. Faint foxing to top edge, else Fine in a Fine unclipped dust jacket, hint of toning to spine panel. A beautiful copy of the fourth book in the Patternist series, issued to reviewers before publication of the first edition. Item #140947080
Price: $3,800
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