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The Brave Little Toaster: Available Copies

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

Used - Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable. Item may be missing bundled media.

Book is considered to be in good or better condition. The actual cover image may not match the stock photo. Hard cover books may show signs of wear on the spine, cover or dust jacket. Paperback book may show signs of wear on spine or cover as well as having a slight bend, curve or creasing to it. Book should have minimal to no writing inside and no highlighting. Pages should be free of tears or creasing. Stickers should not be present on cover or elsewhere, and any CD or DVD expected with the book is included. Book is not a former library copy.

Used - Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting, but the text cannot be obscured or unreadable. Any access codes or passwords originally included with the book may be expired, used or no longer valid. Image is stock photo and cover art edition may be different than pictured.

1988 Hardcover First Edition (stated) Interior clean; binding tight. Boards VG. Dust jacket protected in mylar sleeve.

FIRST PRINTING. used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book and unclipped dust jacket are in fine condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. A worthy sequel to The Brave Little Toaster. 8vo. 72 pp.

A lovely copy of the uncorrected proof in plain blue wraps, signed by Disch on the title page.

In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Edited by Edward L. Ferman. Inscribed by Gahan Wilson on the cover. Very Good. Wraps rubbed at the edges, mailing label on the front, soiled at the back. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, clean otherwise. The first appearance of Disch's story, adapted into the 1987 animated film of the same title.

First trade edition, hardcover, has typical yellowing to the gutters of the end pages, as well as a tiny skew to the binding, slight bumps with a touch of flaking to the paper at the spine ends and cover corners, and faint rubbing with mild edge wear to the covers. Overall, this is a solid, tight and bright, Very Good+ copy in a price-clipped, Near Very Good dust jacket, which has an approx. 1" creased tear to the head of the front, mild wear to the other edges, bumps with slight creasing and tiny tears to the spine ends and corners, and light sunning to the spine and cover edges. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar, and additional images are available.

First appearance of the novella The Brave Little Toaster by Thomas M. Disch. 1980 winner of the British Science Fiction Award for best short fiction and 1981 winner of the Locus award for best novelette. Basis for the 1987 animated musical fantasy film by Jerry Rees featuring Deanna Oliver, Timothy E. Day, and Jon Lovitz. A bright, fine copy. Cover art by Gahad Wilson. ; Octavo.

8vo. Wrappers. [ii], 82pp. Advance uncorrected proofs of the 1st edition, not printing the illustrations other than on the cover. Very Good, moderately rubbed and handled/creased, the fore edge with a mild patch of discolouration.

78pp. Pictorial boards. Illustrations by Karen Schmidt. Basis for the 1987 Jerry Rees animated musical movie featuring Deanna Oliver, Timothy E. Day, and Jon Lovitz. Light discoloration to hinges of endpapers (common with this title). A fine copy in fine dustjacket. ; Octavo.

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Excellent and collectible copy of the UK First Edition/printing. Book and jacket (in a protector) each in Fine condition. Signed nicely by Disch. Very scarce modern first edition for the following reasons: tough to find the UK edition, this condition, and, signed by Disch. Cover plus interior illustrations by Schmidt. Brave Little Toaster was the1980 BSFA award for Best Short Fiction and 1981 Locus winner for Best Novelette. This collection also includes the titular poem. Artwork same as the first (U.S). edition.