Radix
by Attanasio, A.A. [Alfred Angelo Attanasio]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0688001351
- ISBN 13
- 9780688001353
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
Item Price
€1,165.00€1,048.50
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About This Item
New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1981. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good Plus/Near Fine. Octavo. Fred Marcellino. New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1981. First Edition and first printing, and so stated and numbered. One of an estimated 1,000 copies. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino, book design by Michael Mauceri. Octavo, 467 pp. Fine/Fine, flawless, never read. Certainly the best known - and hardest to acquire as a first edition - of the titles produced by New Jersey-born science fiction writer A. A. Attanasio (Alfred Angelo Attanasio], Radix was the first novel in his Radix Tetrad. An imaginative pre-apocalyptic tale occurring 1300 years in the future and written in an eclectic style of much appeal at the time, Radix won a nomination for the Best Novel Nebula Award in 1981. A hard-to-find piece of sci-fi history, beautifully preserved. L-100
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Details
- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001309
- Title
- Radix
- Author
- Attanasio, A.A. [Alfred Angelo Attanasio]
- Illustrator
- Fred Marcellino
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0688001351
- ISBN 13
- 9780688001353
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Pages
- 467
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Alternate & Parallel Worlds, General, Apocalypse, Quest
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Singularity Rare & Fine
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Baldwinsville, New York
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