To Your Scattered Bodies go
by Farmer, Philip Jose
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: G.P.Putnam's Sons (Berkley), 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Di Fate, Vincent. 217pp. 1971. First edition. 8vo. A very good, clean, tight copy in like jacket. This copy has G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York to the tail of the title page but it also has the mention of Berkley Medallion Books to the copyright page (G.P. Putnam first) which is relevant because it has 'Berkley' to the tail of the jacket and not Putnam. The jacket has been illustrated by Vincent Di Fate - it has around 9 bodies drifting into space from a tower which rises from the sea and is predominantly blue. No inscriptions. A very good, clean, tight copy in similar jacket. The leading and lower fore-edge rough-cut. A bump to the tail of the spine with some associated rubbing to the overlying jacket. A light or slight bump to the tail of the front board. The jacket has been price-clipped. There is slight rubbing to a couple of corners, some rubbing to the head of the spine and a short closed tear to the head of the rear panel. The jacket now in a fully revesible, transparent, protective sleeve. A very good, clean tight copy.
Synopsis
To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971) is a science fiction novel and the first book in the Riverworld series of books by Philip José Farmer. It won a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1972 at the 30th Worldcon. The title is derived from the 7th of the "Holy Sonnets" by English poet John Donne: At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blowYour trumpets, angels, and arise, ariseFrom death, you numberless infinitiesOf souls, and to your scattered bodies go.
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- Bookseller
- Trumpington Fine Books Limited
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 235959
- Title
- To Your Scattered Bodies go
- Author
- Farmer, Philip Jose
- Illustrator
- Di Fate, Vincent
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- G.P.Putnam's Sons (Berkley)
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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