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  • Easton Press: 'Stand on Zanzibar' (John Brunner)
  • Easton Press: 'Stand on Zanzibar' (John Brunner)

Easton Press: "Stand on Zanzibar" (John Brunner)

Item Number
231
Estimated Value
60 USD
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31 USD to nbf46b269
Number of Bids
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Item Description

NOTE:  This copy is still shrink-wrapped and in mint condition.  The following description is from a listing on ebay:

  • COLLECTOR'S EDITION"  "Bound in Genuine Leather" stated on the title page.
  • "The special contents of this edition are copyright © 1987 by The Easton Press..." stated on the copyright page. No stated date of publication.
  • This is a limited edition of an unknown number of copies and was available by subscription only.
  • One of The Masterpieces of Science Fiction series, indicated by the logo printed on the endpapers.
  • No ISBN, no printed price, and no dustjacket as issued.
  • Only a portion of the uncredited illustrative cover design (a single line of standing humans) is repeated on the back.
  • Pages are gilt-edged and there is a gold satin bookmark bound into the book.
  • The frontispiece, credited on the title page and separately copyrighted from the interior illustrations, is on the page facing the title page.
  • In addition to a full-color frontispiece, there are three full-page B&W illustrations by Di Fate on unnumbered plates.
  • The novel starts ten pages before page 1, which includes Chapter (0) (a one paragraph Marshall McLuhan epigraph) and 7 pages listing the contents as grouped chapters, not the order of appearance.
Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically---it's about to take over a country in Africa.  Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world...and kill him.    

These two men's lives weave through one of science fiction's most praised novels. Written in a way that echoes John Dos Passos' U.S.A. Trilogy, Stand on Zanzibar is a cross-section of a world overpopulated by the billions.  Where society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers, mass-marketed psychedelic drugs, and mundane uses of genetic engineering.  Though written in 1968, it speaks of today, and is frighteningly prescient and intensely powerful.

Hugo award-winner.

 

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Ellen Kanarek