Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1978. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition stated, first printing. Signed by Octavia E. Butler on the front free endpaper. Near Fine with light shelf wear, remainder spray to bottom textblock edge. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, which is lightly toned and lightly soiled, and with light creases and wear at the edges. Butler's rarest novel, which after a few early editions she would not allow to be reprinted.[Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; In Dust Jacket]