Mockingbird Tapa dura - 1980

Doubleday Books, 1980. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Book club edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Doubleday Books, 1980. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Doubleday Books, 1980. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Doubleday Books, 1980. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Doubleday, 1980T. hardcover. Good. 0.9449 in x 8.1890 in x 5.5906 in. No DJ. Some ink staining on front and back covers. Light shelf wear. Else clean and tight.

New York: Bantam Books, 1981. Very good plus.. First printing of the first US paperback edition, a bleak future fiction from the author of cult classics QUEEN'S GAMBIT and THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH. Nebula Award-nominated science fiction novel of a melancholy android who remembers how to read when the human masses have forgotten everything but their credo of "Inwardness, Privacy, Self-Fulfillment, Pleasure." Far from the worst set of values to hold: but a world of "Pleasure" that excludes novel-reading is an inherent dystopia, if one is an depressive android, or a novel-reader. Called an "unofficial sequel to FAHRENHEIT 451" by a contemporary reviewer for its thematic concerns, which include an old-style post-'60s moral panic over too much birth control and too many readily available good drugs, along with a genuinely moving romantic spirit. Tevis, whose novels had an astonishingly high rate of brilliant film and television adaptations - THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, THE HUSTLER, THE COLOR OF MONEY,… Leer más

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 247 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price cut. Spine black with white and pink lettering. Minor chipping along spine. Large shelf wear on the head and tail of the spine and on front and back pastedowns. Minor foxing on the edges of the text block. Minor purple speckle spray to lower text block edge, probably by publisher. Shelved under front counter. William Tevis is the author of 'The Queen's Gambit.' There is a film adaptation in the works for 'Mockingbird.'. 1367956. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Doubleday, 1980 First printing of the First Edition in Good condition with a Good unclipped Dust Jacket protected by a Mylar Brodart. DJ art by Fred Marcellino.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Hardcover.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1980. First edition. Near fine.. Scarce uncorrected proof (stated) of this bleak future fiction from the author of cult classics QUEEN'S GAMBIT and THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH. Nebula Award-nominated science fiction novel of a melancholy android who remembers how to read when the human masses have forgotten everything but their credo of "Inwardness, Privacy, Self-Fulfillment, Pleasure." Far from the worst set of values to hold: but a world of "Pleasure" that excludes novel-reading is an inherent dystopia, if one is an depressive android, or a novel-reader. Called an "unofficial sequel to FAHRENHEIT 451" by a contemporary reviewer for its thematic concerns, which include an old-style post-'60s moral panic over too much birth control and too many readily available good drugs, along with a genuinely moving romantic spirit. Tevis, whose novels had an astonishingly high rate of brilliant film and television adaptations - THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, THE HUSTLER, THE… Leer más

Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated first edition. Green-blue paper over quarter black cloth boards, light rubbing to extremities. Minor wear and handling to dust jacket; flap is clipped, though with price sticker from Doubleday indicating $11.95; small area over front hinge toward head of spine crimped and creased; no major tears or chips; jacket in mylar protector. Happy to send pics. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.