To Your Scattered Bodies Go
by Philip Jose Farmer
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good/Unjacketed
- Seller
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Cazenovia, New York, United States
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About This Item
2000 leather bound (collector's edition) hardcover as pictured. A beautiful copy of the Farmer classic by Easton Press. Illustrated by Richard Powers with an introduction by Roger Zelazny. Binding is tight. Brown leather boards with gold stamping show only a trace of shelf wear. Patterned endpapers. Gilt edge of text block. Silk ribbon. Head and tail bands. Text appears clean and unmarked. Your purchase helps support our small village library. s OE1
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Friends of the Cazenovia Public Library (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2708
- Title
- To Your Scattered Bodies Go
- Author
- Philip Jose Farmer
- Illustrator
- Richard Powers
- Format/Binding
- See Description
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Unjacketed
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Collector's Edition
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk
- Date Published
- 2000
- Pages
- 222
- Size
- 6 x 9
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, Zelazny, Easton Press
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction; Fantasy;
Terms of Sale
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelf Wear
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...