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SLOW RIVER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Winner of the Nebula Award. Author's second novel (her first won both the Tiptree and the Lambda awards.) Set in the near future, in a world of pollution and identity control, this is the story of a young woman's struggle for survival and independence in the gritty underside of the city. INSCRIBED on the title page. 343 pp. ISBN: 0-345-391659.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75655More details Price: $75.00 -
WALKAWAY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated orange wrappers with a cut-out on the front cover.
Book ID: 74949More details Price: $45.00 -
LORD OF OPIUM
Edition: First printing.
New York: Atheneum. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to Farmer's award-winning "House of Scorpion." As a clone of El Patron, 14 year old Matt is expected to take over as the Lord of Opium, a drug kingdom running along what used to be the border between the US and Mexico, a land devastated by ecological disasters. Cast of characters, maps, chronology, appendix. xvii, 411 pp. ISBN: 978-1442482548.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 72005More details Price: $25.00 -
AN EXCESS MALE.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2017) First printing, a trade paperback original. SIGNED first edition - The author's first published novel, a "dystopian tale of politics, inequality, marriage, love, and rebellion, set in a near-future China . . .Under the One Child Policy, everyone plotted to have a son. Now 40 million of them can't find wives. By the year 2030, more than twenty-five percent of men in their late thirties will not have a family of their own. "An Excess Male" is the story of one such leftover man's quest for love and family under a State that seeks to glorify its past mistakes and impose order through authoritarian measures, reinvigorated Communist ideals, and social engineering." SIGNED on the title page. Includes a reading group discussion guide. 406 pp. ISBN: 978-1538454060.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 71111More details Price: $30.00 -
BURN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2014). Hardcover first edition - The third and final book in the young adult dystopian trilogy that began with "Pure." With his father now dead, Partridge has assumed leadership of the Dome, one of the last few refuges from the ravaged wastelands of the outside world. . . . On the outside, a band of survivors faces a treacherous journey to Dome.. . . As former allies become potential enemies, the fate of the world is more uncertain than ever." 416 pp. ISBN: 978-1455502998.
Condition: Very good in fine dust jacket (an unread copy, but the upper corner of several pages are bumped)
Book ID: 70497More details Price: $15.00 -
CALIFORNIA.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's first novel, set in a "frighteningly realistic near future." SIGNED on the title page. 392 pp. ISBN: 978-0316250818.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63035More details Price: $25.00 -
THE WORLD INSIDE
Edition: Book club edition: the first hardcover printing.
Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1971. dj. Hardcover - In the year 2381, utopia has finally been achieved - war, hunger, crime and birth control have all been eliminated and life is sustained inside huge skyscrapers - since there is no need to travel, it is heresy to want to do so. 184 pp. Dust jacket by James Starrett.
Condition: Fine in a very good dustjacket (lower corner of front flap clipped.)
Book ID: 36288More details Price: $12.50 -
THE WORLD INSIDE
Edition: Book club edition: the first hardcover printing.
Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1971. dj. Hardcover - In the year 2381, utopia has finally been achieved - war, hunger, crime and birth control have all been eliminated and life is sustained inside huge skyscrapers - since there is no need to travel, it is heresy to want to do so. 184 pp. Dust jacket by James Starrett.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 10891More details Price: $14.50