Great Science-Fiction & Fantasy Works

You can get a site directory by clicking on the “hamburger” icon () in the upper right of this page.
Or you can search this site with Google (standard Google-search rules apply).
(Be aware that “sponsored” links to other sites will appear atop the actual results.)

Search term(s):

Oh, Susannah!: Available Copies

Rubbing on front and back cover.

Bumped at the head and heel of the spine; lightly bumped at the corners stain on the bottom back corner. Jacket lightly rubbed with light edgewear.

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

First edition. Fine book in near-fine dust jacket (there is a small rub on the back). Dust jacket now in new removable protective cover. Red boards, quarter bound in beige cloth, with red metallic print on the spine. Gold end pages. From the author's estate. Houghton Mifflin hard cover with dust jacket, first edition 1982, first printing July 1982, complete number line. ISBN: 9780395320549, 256 pages, cover art by Jack Ribik. 8vo (5.5" x 8.5") 10th place, 1983 Locus award.

First printing. A humorous and suspenseful story involving a librarian with amnesia, a smuggling airlines pilot with 4 wives, and a remarkable cat. SIGNED on the title page. Very good- in a very good + dustjacket (glue remnants under dj flaps, spine slant.)

First edition hardcover inscribed to the title page by Wilhelm. Hint of shelfwear to board edges, DJ slightly edgeworn. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages; Signed by Author

VG hardcover in VG Jacket. 1982. First ED. SIGNED/inscribed by AUTHOR on title page. Pages all clean/unmarked. LIght scuffs/edge wear. Binding solid. Jacket unclipped and clean/solid. Light wear/use. Solid. 256 pp. Wilhelm died in 2018.

Dust jacket art by Jack Ribik. As new, never read.

Signed first edition. Hardcover, with clean pages and intact dust jacket.

Uncorrected proof of Wilhelm's 21st book, a humorous romance thriller. But then, she's always been hard to categorize as a writer. Slight indications that a reviewer might have read this copy, but very close to as-issued.

Former Library Copy. Book has considerable wear. No highlighting or underlining. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.

One page, dot-matrix output, 35 lines, signed in ink at bottom. 2 vols. 8vo. Choice letter from American Kate Wilhelm (1928-2008), author of Hugo award winning novel Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (1976), to New York science fiction editor David G. Hartwell. Wilhelms gives news of recent science fiction events and then sounds him out as a prospective expert witness for litigation concerning possible copyright infringement of her novel Oh Susannah! (1982) by the film Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), which was pop star MAdonna's screen debut, and the novelization. "Right now we're interested in having you comment on the novelization and my novel . I guess what I really need is to know if you as an editor had published my novel, is there a point where you would reject the novelization of the movie on the grounds that it's too similar? Plus, of course, anything else you care to comment on." The letter is annotated with points of comparison, includign name, amnesia, story/plot topics, prody of middle class consumerism, "Susan/Roberta as 'split' for Susannah/ Jane Doe" Wilhelm, who later wrote Death Qualified, a Mystery of Chaos (1991) and was named to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2003, pursued an action against the film's prdocuers and writers in 1987. With fine copies of the two books in question: Wilhelm's Oh Susannah! (Houghton Mifflin, 1980), and Desperately Seeking Susan The Novel by Susan Dworkin based on a screenplay by Leora Barish (harmony Books, 1985). Old fold, annotated on verso with 9 points of comparison, minor toning, fine. Books fine One page, dot-matrix output, 35 lines, signed in ink at bottom. 2 vols. 8vo