FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON
by Keyes, Daniel
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- Hardcover
- Signed
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FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON, Creative Education, 1988, first separate and first illustrated edition (with first printing so stated on the copyright page to insure proper identification), as new in like dust-wrapper. Filmed most successfully as CHARLIE. This HUGO winning short story offered here was later lengthened and became a NEBULA winning novel. This copy specially SIGNED by the author. Very scarce thus. 1/2,000 copies of which almost the entire print run was devoured by the library market.
Synopsis
Flowers for Algernon is a science fiction short story and subsequent novel written by Daniel Keyes. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960. The novel was published in 1966 and was joint winner of that year's Nebula Award for Best Novel. The titular Algernon is a laboratory mouse who has undergone surgery to increase his intelligence by artificial means.
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- Title
- FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON
- Author
- Keyes, Daniel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Creative Education
- Date Published
- 1988
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- FIRST EDITIONS
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