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Sladek, John T.. The Reproductive System. Victor Gollancz, London, 1968.
Price: US$31.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover with jacket in good condition. First edition, first printing. Jacket front flap is not price-clipped. Obi strip on jacket. Jacket, hardcover, page block and a few pages are marked. Light edge-wear on jacket. Minor nick on rear upper edge. Hardcover spine ends are bumped. Bookseller's sticker on front pastedown. Text is clear throughout. HCW
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
JOHN SLADEK.. The Reproductive System. A Science Fiction Novel.. Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1968.
Price: US$44.52 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition (first printing) - this UK edition preceding the US issue by a year (the US edition was published under the title 'Mechasm' and only appeared in paperback format). 8vo. 192pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny hint of spotting to the fore edge, else a fine copy in lightly toned, rubbed and dust soiled dust wrapper, with the publisher's new metric price-sticker placed over the original price printed to the front flap of the wrapper. The author's first book, bar his pseudonymous Gothic thriller 'The Castle and the Key', which appeared as a paperback accredited to 'Cassandra Knye' a year earlier.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
John Sladek. The Reproductive System. Victor Gollancz, 1968.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Sladek, John. The Reproductive System. Victor Gollancz, London, 1968.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo., 192pp. First British and true First Edition. Beautiful Fine copy in a sharp Near Fine wrapper with some darkening and discoloration to the spine; typical in the Gollancz yellow wrappers. Author's first book.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
Sladek, John. THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM. Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1968.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. His first sf novel. "The Reproductive System introduced into his typical small-town-US setting a brilliant maelstrom of sf activity: a self-reproducing technological device goes out of control in passages of allegorical broadness: but everything turns out all right in the end, though not through positive efforts of the inept cast, and a dreamlike Utopia looms on the horizon. Governing the conniptions of the tale is an obsessive discourse upon and dramatization of the metamorphic relationships between human and Robot, a relationship which lies at the centre of all his subsequent solo novels and much of his short fiction." - SFE online. Reprinted in the U.S. as MECHASM (1969). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1040. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket in a fine dust jacket with mild toning to the spine panel. (28958)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Sladek, John. THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM .. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1968.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. Reprinted in the U.S. as MECHASM (1969). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1040. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#82423)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Sladek, John. THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM. Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1968.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. Anatomy of Wonder 4-521. Fine in fine dust jacket. (2079)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
SLADEK, John.. The Reproductive System.. Victor Gollancz, London., 1968.
Price: US$190.80 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 192 pages. The author's first book, a science fiction novel.Signed by the author on the title-page. On the front free endpaper is the ownership signature of fellow science fiction writer Christopher Priest.Spine faintly faded. Near fine in very good indeed dustwrapper slightly darkened at the spine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Sladek, John. THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM .. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1968.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. A presentation copy with elaborate color paper collage and pen and ink inscription by Sladek signed "John" to "Dave" on front free endpaper. Reprinted in the U.S. as MECHASM (1969). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1040. A near fine copy in good dust jacket with internal repair to upper spine end and dust soiling to front, spine and rear panels. (#110972)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Sladek, John. THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM .. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1968.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Sladek. Reprinted in the U.S. as MECHASM (1969). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1040. A fine copy in fine price-clipped dust jacket. (#110971)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.