Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1984. Fine condition in a Very Near Fine dust jacket. Not price clipped ($13.95). No chips. No tears. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Not a book club edition. No owner's name or bookplate. Not a remainder. Science fiction/utopian fable centered on the aftermath of nuclear holocaust. Dust Jacket praise from Jean Auel. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p.426. Bound in the original gray boards and brown cloth spine. From the Dust Jacket: "The Place is a secret settlement somewhere in the American West, a shelter for victims of the children of nuclear accident victims... despite their deformities and dependence, the dimensions of their emotions are fully human... Until now, they have been unaware of the outside world... and unknown to it... Joyce Thompson here describes how the People discover their history and begin to grapple with their fate as the tranquility of the Place is invaded by an unknowing, uncaring, and dangerous enemy.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Marcellino, Fred (jacket art). 8vo. 225pp.

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Bookseller: About Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 010457
Title: Conscience Place
Author: Thompson, Joyce
Illustrator: Marcellino, Fred (jacket art)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine condition
Jacket Condition: Very Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Printing of the First Edition
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Place of Publication: Garden City, New York
Date Published: 1984
Bookseller catalogs: Science Fiction / Fantasy;
Size: 8vo. 225pp

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