New York: Doubleday (1980). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 248 pp. Original burgundy boards, stamped in grey, in original unclipped ($10.00) dust-jacket. Light edge wear, a few small nicks, tiny chips to corners, mild handling and shelf wear with a few spots. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. A few nicks to panels and edges from handling. Light handling wear present. Stated first edition. Remainder spray to bottom text block. Gutter code K23. Interior is clean and unmarked.

Dust Jacket: Near Fine

Hardcover: Near Fine

“Although published in 1980 as the fourth book of the Patternist series, it is the earliest book in the chronology of the Patternist world. The other books in the series are, in order within the Patternist chronology: Mind of My Mind (1977), Clay's Ark (1984), Survivor (1978), and Patternmaster (1976). In his survey of Butler's work, critic Burton Raffel singles out Wild Seed as an example of Butler's "major fictive talent", calling the book's prose "precise and tautly cadence," "forceful because it is focused" and "fictively superbly effective because it is in each and every detail true to the character's lives."