A futuristic tale set in a world where reading is forbidden, citizens are drugged from childhood on, and machines dominate humans focuses on two people who teach themselves how to read and how to think independently
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Anbieter: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Clean pages. Binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1272802378
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Anbieter: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Clean pages. Binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1272704275
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Anbieter: Craig Hokenson Bookseller, Dallas, TX, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition/First Printing. Very solid book with owner bookplate and gift inscription to pastedown, and a small brown spot to fore edge. Jacket is not bad but has these faults. one crease to rear flap, tiny chip with associated tear and crease bottom front panel, and maybe a little moisture showing to back side that needs to be searched for. Solid and tight. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 047188
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Anbieter: Falling Waters Booksellers, Morganton, GA, USA
Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Uncorrected proof. A very nice copy with very little wear. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001709
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Anbieter: Feldman's Books, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good to Fine. 1st Edition. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 045724
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Anbieter: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Doubleday and Company, Inc, Garden City, 1980. 247 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In a world where the human population has suffered devastating losses, a handful of survivors cling to what passes for life in a post-apocalyptic, dying landscape. People wander, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss, through a barren landscape with no children, no art, and where reading is forbidden. From this bleak existence, a tragic love triangle springs forth. Spofforth, the most perfect machine ever created, runs the world, but his only wish is to die. Paul and Mary Lou are a man and a woman whose passion for each other sparks a jealousy in Spofforthâ"and provides the only hope for the future of human beings on Earth.; 8.2 X 5.6 X 0.9 inches; 247 pages. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 74484
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Anbieter: Feldman's Books, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 045723
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Anbieter: Wilmington Book Lover, Wilmington, NC, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1980. First Edition, stated. Octavo (21.5cm); illustrated dust jacket with original $10.00 price intact; dark blue-green boards with black cloth spine and silver lettering; [viii],247pp. Jacket lightly shelfworn. Binding is sound. Former owner's inscription on the frontispiece. Dystopian novel from the author of The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Queen's Gambit, and The Color of Money. Set in a bleak 25th century Manhattan run by dilapidated androids for a near-extinct, illiterate, and infertile human population. Reviewing a 1999 re-issue, editor Pat Holt write that the book often feels like a combination of 1984 and Brave New World, with a dash of the movie Escape from New York thrown in. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 32
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Anbieter: Feldman's Books, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, Stated. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 045722
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Anbieter: Dearly Departed Books, Alliance, OH, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition stated, quarter bound in black cloth & green boards with silver spine lettering. 8vo size,247pp. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good dust jacket. Book is clean and tight. Minor rubbing to the spine tips. Front fly leaf is stamped "POD". Perhaps a remainder mark? Contents are otherwise fine. VG dust jacket has tiny frays to the spine tips. Top left corner of front panel is rubbed and has a mild crease. Scarce book. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 85922
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