Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977. First Edition. The pioneering Afrofuturist author's second book, and the second volume in her Patternist series, "developing ideas about the linking of minds via telepathy, first used in the earlier Patternmaster (1976) to described a whole society, one a more intimate scale..... More
Garden City & New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. / St. Martin's Press, 1976-1984. First Editions. Sharp set of this cornerstone work by by Butler (1947-2006), hailed by many as the "Mother of Afrofuturism." Butler began crafting the Patternist narrative when she first began writing science-fiction at the age of..... More
New York: Avon Books, 1979. First Paperback Edition. Butler's first book, and the first volume (though last, chronologically) in her Patternist series. First Printing. Octavo (17.75cm); pictorial card wrappers; red edge-staining; [6],7-160pp. Inscribed by the author to Homer Lusk, a long-time professor at Grossmont College, who taught courses in mythology..... More