Motion Of Light In Water, The – Samuel R. Delany
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For sale is a rare and exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of The Motion Of Light In Water: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village by Samuel R. Delany. First Edition unstated, 1988 Arbor House First printing with a complete number line, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.

The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, strong spine ends, no edge wear, and two lightly bumped corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.

The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with very mild surface and edge wear. First state jacket with $18.95 price on the front flap, 388 date code on the rear flap and the painting of the author by Jack Gaughan. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.

Winner of the Hugo Award for Non-fiction
The unexpurgated edition of the award-winning autobiography

Born in New York City’s black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school. The interracial couple moved into the city’s new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in summer 1961. Through the decade’s opening years, new art, new sexual practices, new music, and new political awareness burgeoned among the crowded streets and cheap railroad apartments. Beautifully, vividly, insightfully, Delany calls up this era of exploration and adventure as he details his development as a black gay writer in an open marriage, with tertiary walk-ons by Bob Dylan, Stokely Carmichael, W. H. Auden, and James Baldwin, and a panoply of brilliantly drawn secondary characters.

Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.