Dawn: Xenogenesis [Signed]

New York: Warner Books / Warner Communications Company, 1987. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Warner Books / Warner Communications Company, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; [8],264pp. Light wear and soiling to edges of unclipped jacket. Touch of shelfwear to boards; binding sound; foxing to edges of text blocky. Signed, with a bit of a false start, by the author on title page; confirmed by consignor this was signed by Butler after quite a long wait in line.

First volume in Butler's Xenogenesis series, retaining the publisher's infamously whitewashed dust jacket design which depicts the protagonist (a Black woman in the book) as a white woman reminiscent of Sigourney Weaver in Alien.