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Wild Seed - Uncorrected Proof copy [Signed Bookplate Laid in]

Wild Seed - Uncorrected Proof copy [Signed Bookplate Laid in]

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Wild Seed - Uncorrected Proof copy [Signed Bookplate Laid in]

by Octavia Butler

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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1980. Near Fine. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980. Uncorrected Proof. Bookplate signed by Butler laid in at front. Tall, narrow octavo (27.5 cm). Original teal card wraps, with black lettering to front. Touch of shelfwear to wraps and corners curl slightly. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a Near Fine unread copy.

The fourth volumes (and first sequentially) in Butler's Patternist series, following the struggle between the immortals Doro and Anyanwu. Scarce in the advanced state.

Synopsis

Wild Seed is the first book chronologically in the Patternist series, although it is the fourth published. The story centers around the main characters of Doro and Anyanwu, two immortals living in Africa. Doro is a spirit who can inhabit other people's bodies but kills them recklessly. He is breeding a race of superhumans, along with his son Issac. Anyanwu is a shapeshifting healer and one of the only beings Doro can't sense when she changes into an animal. Doro is compelled and threatened by her power, but she becomes repulsed by his callous murders. If they can work together, they have the true power to change the world. Butler's novel explores eugenics, the ethics of controlled evolution, and the creation of a black superrace through the same means colonists and enslavers used to promote white supremacy. Butler also portrayed a strong black female protagonist when they were nearly nonexistent in American literature. 

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Title
Wild Seed - Uncorrected Proof copy [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
Author
Octavia Butler
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
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Publisher
Doubleday & Company, Inc
Place of Publication
Garden City, NY
Date Published
1980

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Uncorrected Proof
An uncorrected proof is a printed copy of a book that needs to be reviewed for errors and corrections. They are released prior...
Shelfwear
Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
Fine
A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Bookplate
Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Octavo
Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...

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