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The Brave Little Toaster: Available Copies

Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less

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.

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.

Solid with a slight spine lean, small bumps on the corners of the covers, and the covers show light wear. The dust jacket has some scratches on the back and it has some crumpling along the top edges and shows wear from rubbing. There is a date written on the top of the front free end paper in ball point pen ink. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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.

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.

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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.