Mockingbird
- Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1980
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1980. Very Good/Very Good. 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; U48 gutter code to p. 247; [viii],247pp. Jacket lightly shelfworn, with some creasing at bottom of rear panel, bumping at head of spine, toning to verso, and a couple small tape remnants at top and bottom of rear flap. Boards lightly rubbed along bottom edge. Spine a bit cocked, and nudged at head and tail. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
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.
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.