Dawn by Octavia E. Butler SIGNED! [FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING]

Dawn by Octavia E. Butler {XENOGENESIS #1]

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1987] WARNER BOOKS

*Title page has attached bookplate signed by late author Octavia E. Butler

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.

Dust jacket is excellent; some shelf wear but otherwise clean, vibrant and strong with unclipped panels. 

Book itself has a line of water damage along bottom of front cover; however the rest of cover / spine looks excellent.  

Small yellowish spot water stain to margins of first two dozen pages that fades in severity with each page [see last 2 photos] -- unaffected pages are like new. 

Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of the planet’s final war. Hundreds of years later Lilith awakes, deep in the hold of a massive alien spacecraft piloted by the Oankali—who arrived just in time to save humanity from extinction. They have kept Lilith and other survivors asleep for centuries, as they learned whatever they could about Earth. Now it is time for Lilith to lead them back to her home world, but life among the Oankali on the newly resettled planet will be nothing like it was before.

The Oankali survive by genetically merging with primitive civilizations—whether their new hosts like it or not. For the first time since the nuclear holocaust, Earth will be inhabited. Grass will grow, animals will run, and people will learn to survive the planet’s untamed wilderness. But their children will not be human. Not exactly.