Patternmaster / Octavia E. Butler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butler, Octavia E., author.

Contributor:

Doubleday & Company, Inc., publisher.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Doubleday science fiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Telepathy--Fiction.

Telepathy.

Healers--Fiction.

Healers.

Inheritance and succession--Fiction.

Inheritance and succession.

Genre:

Fiction.

Fantasy fiction.

Science fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (inscription) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)

Butler, Octavia E. (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 186 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976.

Summary:

The Patternist is a telepathic race, commanded by the Patternmaster, whose thoughts can destroy, heal, rule. Coransee, son of the ruling Patternmaster, wants the throne and will stop at nothing to get it, including venture into the wild mutant-infested hills to destroy a young apprentice--his equal and his brother. Previously out of print.

Notes:

Author's first novel.

"Jacket by Tim and Steve Quay."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy inscribed "To Joanna Banks. The collector! Octavia E. Butler".

Banks Collection copy has embossed stamp "JB The Library of Joanna Banks".

Banks Collection copy has stamps on front and back pastedowns.

Other Format:

Online version: Butler, Octavia E. Patternmaster.

ISBN:

0385121970 :

9780385121972

0446362816

9780446362818

OCLC:

2188915