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Parable of the Sower
by Butler, Octavia E
- Used
- Near Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket as issued
- ISBN 10
- 0941423999
- ISBN 13
- 9780941423991
- Seller
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West Linn, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket as issued. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Jacket Design by Stark Design. This is an uncorrected proof in pictorial wraps of the First Edition. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 number line. Enclosed is a letter from Dan Simon, Co-Publisher, stating that the copy of this proof has been sent to the recipient.
Synopsis
In acclaimed science-fiction author Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower , we find the world in 2025, crippled by global warming, pollution, and socio-cultural tensions. 'Hyperempath' Lauren Olamina, a black teenager living just outside Los Angeles, flees with her community to escape the dangerous pyromaniacs who are destroying the remainders of civilization. As she flees, she begins to preach her philosophy, her religion, called 'Earthseed' to the other refugees. "Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists that control the fool To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery."
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Details
- Seller
- Cross Genre Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 000699
- Title
- Parable of the Sower
- Author
- Butler, Octavia E
- Illustrator
- Jacket Design by Stark Design
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0941423999
- ISBN 13
- 9780941423991
- Publisher
- Four Walls Eight Windows
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Pages
- 299
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- X weight
- 0 lbs
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 12mo
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- Uncorrected Proof
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- Pictorial Wraps
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- Jacket
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- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
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