Restoree
New York: Ballantine Books, September, 1967. 17.9x10.7cm: 252pp. + 3pp. of publisher’s advertisements. First Edition. Paperback. Cover artwork by Brothers Hildebrandt. Orange stained textblock. Light shelfwear and toning to covers. Small pink stain to top of rear cover. Near Fine.
This was Anne McCaffrey’s first published novel which was edited by Betty Ballantine. It initiated a long standing relationship between the two, as well as with Ballantine Books and Del Rey. Restoree is a novel about a human woman who gets abducted by aliens and has to survive on a new planet. In Dragonholder: The Life and Dreams of Anne McCaffrey, the biography written by McCaffrey’s son, “Restoree was Anne’s earliest blow for women’s rights in science fiction. I was so tired of all the weak women screaming in the corner while their boyfriends were beating off the aliens — I wouldn’t have been — I’d’ve been in there swinging with something or kicking them as hard as I could.”.
Price: $30.00
Item #10700