Octavia Butler

Dawn [Signed Uncorrected Page Proofs]

New York: Warner Books, Inc., 1987. Very Good / Very Good. Item #12895
ISBN: 0446513636

New York: Warner Books, Inc., 1987. Uncorrected Proof copy. Signed by Butler without inscription on title page. Octavo. 264 pp. Gray card wrappers, with titling and publication info printed in black on front cover. Publisher's trial dustjacket with whitewashed Lilith illustration (which was retained for publication) and without text on flaps or rear panel, and measuring approx. 1 cm taller than the book.

Light wear to extremities, with a faint stain to lower right corner of rear wrapper and lower edge of textblock. Unpriced dustjacket shows some mild external wear with a small diagonal crease to lower rear flap; folding slightly askew (with the intention of fitting to size). Pencil erasure at top corner of half title, else interior unmarked.

First volume in Butler's Xenogenesis series, Scarce in the advance state, especially signed.

Price: $1,250.00