Clay's Ark by Octavia E. Butler [FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING] 1984

Clay's Ark by Octavia E. Butler {PATTERNMASTER #3]

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1984] ST. MARTIN'S PRESS

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.  Ex-library with some flaws.  Stated first printing w. full number line. 

Dust jacket is in tact, housed in protective mylar jacket, with unclipped panels, light wear, but has some scuffs and tape damage to lower back [near barcode.]

Book itself is very good.  Cover is pristine w. beautiful gilded title on spine.  Library stamps on exterior page edges, one inked out.  Otherwise, reads like new. 

An innocent familiy, carjacked on a desolate highway, is abducted to a bizarre new world. A world being born in the Californian desert.

They discover Earth has been invaded by an alien microorganism. The deadly entity attacks like a virus, but survivors of the disease genetically bond with it, developing amazing powers, near-immortality, unnatural desires - and a need to spread the contagion and create a secret colony of the transformed. Now the meaning of "survival" changes. For the babies born in the colony are clearly, undeniably, not human...