New York: Doubleday (1978). First hardcover edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 185 pp. Original saffron orange boards, stamped in black, in original unclipped ($6.95) dust-jacket. Light edge wear, a few small nicks, tiny tear atop rear panel edge, edges mildly toned, mild handling and shelf wear. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Faintest foward lean. A few nicks to panels and edges from handling. Light handling wear present. Small wrinkle to bottom of page 32. Spine ends lightly curled. Interior is clean and unmarked.

Dust Jacket: Near Fine

Hardcover: Near Fine

“First published in 1978 as part of Butler's "Patternist series", Survivor is the only one of Butler's early novels not to be reprinted after its initial editions. Butler expressed dislike for the work, referring to it as "my Star Trek novel. Although set within the broader plot of the Patternist series, the entire plot of Survivor is largely separated from the events of the other books in the series. Survivor contains numerous references that ground it within Butler's Patternist series of novels. Although Alanna never describes meeting either the mutated Clayarks or their main opponents, the "Patternist" psychics, the events in Survivor describe an earlier stage of the same conflict described in Butler's earlier novel, Patternmaster.”