order Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1976. SIGNED. True 1st/1st. VG/VG. Stated First Edition with no additional printings listed. Signed by John Crowley on the title page. A misprint on the last page ("Small" to "Shall") has been corrected in pen and initialed JMC. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Light creases to the spine ends and faint speckled remainder spray to bottom fore-edges. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($5.95) and Very Good. Mild edge-wear and crinkling to spine head. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.
"Beasts" describes a world in which genetically engineered animals are given a variety of human characteristics. Painter is a leo, a combination of man and lion. Reynard, a character derived from medieval European fable, is part fox. Political forces result in the leos being deemed an experimental failure, first resigned to reservations, and later to be hunted down and eliminated. A central element of the story is the relationship between Painter and Reynard, who acts as a kingmaker behind the scenes.
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Product code: SIGNED, order Beasts, John Crowley, Signed on title page, First Printing, with misprint on last page, 1976