Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Farmer, Philip Jose. A Feast Unknown. Essex House, 1969, 1969.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Wraps. Near Fine. First Edition. Very minor edge soiling else Fine, tight and clean. An unread copy and uncommon thus.
Seller: Black Dog Books, Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Essex House 0121; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 286 pages; [SIGNED] 1969 Essex House. #0121. Mass market paperback original. 1st edition, 1st printing. Signed by Farmer on the title page. Soundly bound copy in original color pictorial covers. Spine slightly shelf cocked and lightly reader creased. Covers lightly edge and surface worn with a few tiny abrasion spots adjacent to the publisher printed price and mild soiling to covers. A few tiny instances of soiling to page block edges. Signed 1st printing with reader wear. G++ or better; Signed by Author
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Farmer, Philip Jose. A FEAST UNKNOWN. Essex House, 1969.
Price: US$116.00 + shipping
Description: A FEAST UNKNOWN, Essex House, 1969, first edition, A BRIGHT VG+ OR BETTER COPY IN WRAPS
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Farmer, Philip Jose. A Feast Unknown. Essex House, North Hollywood, CA, 1969.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a mass market paperback book. (PBO) with book number 0121 on the front cover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping and wear. There are several spots of light rubbing, mostly to the rear cover of the book. The text pages are clean and bright.
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Philip Jose Farmer. A Feast Unknown PBO. Essex House, 1969.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Porn/SF novel featuring a thinly disguised Doc Savage And Tarzan. Adults only. VG; small brown stains on cover.
Seller: DreamHaven Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Essex House 0121. Paperback original. Signed by Farmer. A Tarzan pastiche with adult content. Postscript by Theodore Sturgeon. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-389. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-99. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 44. Mild rubbing to covers, a very good to nearly fine copy. (19398)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Philip José Farmer (with a postscript by Theodore Sturgeon). A Feast Unknown. Essex House, 1969.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine first edition of a limited release by Essex House. Prolific author Farmer mixes science-fiction and erotica in this tale of half-brothers battling for immortality. The soft cover book is tight, clean and square with only slight wear to the covers and spine-ends. Appears unread with no creases of any kind.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Typed Manuscript. 240pp. Loose quarto sheets numbered at the top of the page. An original carbon copy of the corrected manuscript with edits to nearly every page, with an original typed title page Signed by Farmer and original typed Editor' Note page with his original hand corrections in pencil. Overall near fine with some toning to the first few pages and light edgewear. The carbon typescript of Farmer's adult novel *A Feast Unknown* which follows the sexually explicit and violence adventures of Lord Grandrith and Doc Caliban (analogues for the pulp characters Tarzan and Doc Savage), who due to their immortality, cannot become arouse unless engaged in violence. Due to the outrageous content of the story, written by Farmer as a satire, it was published in a small quantity in 1969 by Essex House, a publisher of porn novels. The manuscript of a daring novel by a science-fiction writer best known for Riverworld series.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.