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Boston: Gregg Press, 1977. First edition. A fine copy, corners a little bumped, without dust jacket as issued. An uncommon book. (11090). Octavo, cloth. Signed by Delany on the title page. This edition contains all textual corrections from the author, including several dropped lines of dialogue (these corrections were not fully made through the first nine printings of the paperback editions). Lengthy introduction by Jean Mark Gawron. "Convoluted and fascinating, it remains on of the key works of avant-garde SF, by an author determined to extend the limits of the genre." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-127. Nominated for the Nebula award for best novel in 1975. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-315. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 533-38].

Boston: Gregg Press, 1977. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. With a New Introduction by Jean Mark Gawron. Association Copy. Inscribed by Delany to his correspondent and editor Mog Decarnin. Very Good. Green cloth, rubbed at the surface and edges, two creases to the cloth on the spine. Square, bound with some reading wear, foxed at the edges, clean otherwise. The first hardcover edition of Delany's classic and challenging science fiction novel, and the first to feature all of his textual corrections absent from the Bantam printings.