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The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid: Available Copies

Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Very Good condition.

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.4

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.4

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.4

. From the library of science fiction and fantasy writer, editor, publisher and prolific book reviewer D. Douglas Fratz. (Science Fiction, Fantasy)

5¾"x8½", 210 pages; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. Dustjacket has a clear polyester book jacket cover. A used copy with normal reading wear. If you order more than one book, I will combine the books in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details. A synthetically created Billy the Kid trying to survive in the 21st century.

Discolored pages.

314pps. Like new, unread copy, no reading creases, smooth spine. Faintest edge wear, no marks. Nice copy.

A Tor Book/A Tom Doherty Associates Book, New York. 1991. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Retired small town library copy with little use. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for library stamps on the front endpapers, title page, last page, and textblock bottom. Book Condition: Very Good; bar code bar on front pastedown; glue residue on boards from DJ taping; scant shelfwear to board edges. DJ: Near Fine; no library markings; light edge wear. Red paper over boards with gray cloth overlay on the spine with bright black lettering on the spine. 210 pp 8vo. Chimeras are synthetic human-looking beings gorwn in vats. A chimera maker for the CIA has stolen parts of the Agency and created and illegal replica of Billy the Kid, but hardwired so as not to recognize any artifact made after 1880. Boyle rents him out to wealthy women for a night of fantasy, he then kills the Kid, edits his memories, and rents him out again. Only problem is that the Kid is now keeping faint memories urging him be his own person in the 20th Century. After a while, he begins remembering things from his previous lives, a woman helps him escape, and he makes his way to a futuristic New York City, where he believes he was born. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

Tor Books #50672-3, 1991. Stated First Edition in Fine condition. Cove r by Dean Morrissey

Book club hardcover. Lightly soiled on the top of the book. Jacket lightly rubbed on the back cover; light edgewear.

The dustjacket has only very minor shelf wear on the edges and foot of the spine.

210 Pages. Red boards with gray quarter-spine and black spine lettering. They are called chimeras, and they are the scientific miracles of the twenty-first century: synthetic, human-looking beings grown in vats, then implanted with artificial memories and, often, unusual skills. Among the decadent rich, chimeras are purchased as fashionable pets. But in the hands of politicians, business moguls, military kingpins and agents of the CIA, they serve far more deadly purposes. Because in the endless struggle for supremacy within the world's constantly shifting balance of power, chimeras are the perfect tools for e~pionage and betrayal. Simon Boyle, chimera-maker for the CIA, has taken treachery into a new dimension, stealing parts from the Agency to create an illegal replica of Billy the Kid. A replica hardwired so that he cannot recognize any artifact made after 1880. Boyle has made this specially enhanced chimera his private gold mine. He rents Billy out to wealthy women eager for a brief interlude of romantic fantasy-then he kills the Kid, revives him, edits his memories and rents him out again. But after living and dying numerous times at his creator's whim, Billy is changing. Faint memories linger, urging him to escape. And he has become aware of a vague yet compelling need: to be his own person.

210 Science fiction and the bionic man

Hardcover - Book club edition: the first hardcover printing. Interesting speculative fiction about bioengineering in the 21st century, and about a chimera ( human beings grown in vats) made of Billy the Kid, who is hardwired so he can't remember anything after 1888. Fine in near fine dust jacket.( edges worn a bit)

Main offering of the Science Fiction Book Club for Summer 1991. Dustjacket art by Bryn Barnard, as new, never read.

Paperback (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

. Book Club 1st Edition. A solid spine with no rubbing's.The dustjacket is rubbed on the corners with a small (1/4 inch) tear on upper front cover. Illustrated by Byrn Barnard.

Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES 12mo; 314 pages; acceptable mass market paperback; spine slanting; slight tear top edge front cover where mneets spine head; tips bumped with slight fray; few slight nicks to cover top edge; slight spot stain top edge; tanning page edges; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking; scifi fantasy based in 21st century involving the CIA