Babel-17 … With a new introduction

by Robert Scholes by Samuel R. Delany

$750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First hardcover edition of the corrected text, originally published 1966. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Original green copy. Fine copy, without dust jacket as issued. Currey, p. 139; Wessells 36. Provenance: David G. Hartwell. Item #374189 An early Delany masterpiece, an intergalactic novel about language and communication with poet heroine Rydra Wong, recruited to decode and understand transmissions in an alien language.

• Binding: Hardcover

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