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McSherry, Frank D; & Charles Waugh, Martin H Greenberg (editors); Frederick Pohl; Nelson Bond; Paul Gallico; Bill Pronzini; RodBiblio.com

Baseball 3000

1981réf. 001409New York: Elsevier / Nelson Books 1981. Very Fine condition in bright shiny Very Fine Dust Jacket protected by a removable Brodart sleeve. Fresh and crisp apparently never read. A beautiful copy of a book tough-to-find in Very Fine collectible condition. Clean square tight and unmarked. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped $12.50. No chips tears scuffs creases or rubbing. Not a book club edition. No remainder mark. No owner's name or bookplate. "First edition" is so stated with complete number row 10 987654321 on copyright page. Scarce anthology of 11 science fiction stories on baseball: THE CELEBRATED NO-HIT INNING by Frederick Pohl; THE WORD OF BABE RUTH by Paul Gallico; THE MIGHTY CASEY by Rod Serling; THE HEAVENLY WORLD SERIES by Frank O'Rourke; THE EINSTEIN INSHOOT by Nelson Bond; STAR SLUGGER by William Morrison; HALF PAST ALLIGATOR by Donald Colvin; ON ACCOUNT OF DARKNESS by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini; etc. Great wrap-around Dust Jacket illustration by Bradley Clark features aliens and a robot playing baseball. One of the aliens has three sets of arms and a baseball glove on each of three hands. Original blue boards. From the Dust Jacket: "What is the effect of baseball on alien beings new to the game How will the game change when human-shaped machines become capable of playing it Is it fair play for an outfielder to levitate hundreds of feet into the air to catch the ball Fascinating problems are explored in eleven science-fiction stories about America's most popular sport. here are baseball tales that will amuse provoke and enlighten. This unusual anthology will take baseball fans and lovers of science fiction and fantasy far out to some thrilling ball games." McCue p. 73. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Fine condition/Very Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Clark Bradley jacket art. 8vo. vi 210pp. Elsevier / Nelson Books Hardcover

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Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange ;Literature; Science FictionBiblio.com

Dystopian Literature Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and the American Paperback Image of Juvenile Violence 1965

1965réf. 191371965. Burgess Anthony. A Clockwork Orange 1965 first mass-market paperback edition brought Burgess's dystopian novel of juvenile violence state punishment behavioral conditioning and individual choice to an American paperback readership six years before Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film adaptation. Burgess constructs the novel around Alex and his teenage gang whose violence leads to Alex's imprisonment and compulsory submission to the Ludovico Technique a state conditioning program intended to make violent behavior physically intolerable to him. The conflict between Alex's brutality and the government's attempt to eliminate his capacity to choose gives the novel its central question: whether enforced good behavior can constitute moral goodness when the individual no longer possesses the freedom to act otherwise. Burgess Anthony. A Clockwork Orange. New York: Ballantine Books 1965. First mass-market paperback edition. 191 pages. Illustrated wrappers with cover art by Mozelle Thompson. The front shows a young man in sunglasses and black leather riding a motorcycle with two additional leather-clad men and a blonde woman grouped behind him. Ballantine explicitly marketed the novel through contemporary anxiety about juvenile delinquency placing above the title the line "Terrifying Shocker of a World Dominated by Teen-age Gangs." Thompson's imagery and the publisher's tagline differ markedly from the visual vocabulary subsequently associated with Kubrick's film preserving an American commercial interpretation of Burgess's novel before Alex and his droogs became inseparable in popular culture from the film's costumes and imagery. Published in paperback during a decade of sustained public debate over juvenile delinquency crime punishment and behavioral control this Ballantine edition shows how Burgess's novel was initially presented to American mass-market readers: not principally through the later film's imagery but as a sensational narrative of teenage gang violence. Minor scuffing and creasing to wrappers with an orange line beneath "Orange" in the title discoloration to rear wrapper and bumping at foot of spine. A few pencil notes occur throughout the text. Cover colors remain bright and crisp. Overall very good condition. First mass-market paperback edition with Mozelle Thompson's pre-Kubrick artwork and Ballantine's original emphasis on the novel's teenage gang culture. unknown