First printings of the groundbreaking YA science fiction trilogy about a group of Black children in Ohio who learn that they have psychic powers.
Very good plus overall.
Price: $300.00
"She was Justice, the Watcher. Given power because it was needed."
This trilogy follows the adventures and fate of a small group of children who learn that they are the beginning of a new species of human with psychic powers, a classic trope in mid-century science fiction (such as Zenna Henderson's "The People"), but here played out amid a Black community in the midwest. In the NEW YORK TIMES review of the first book, Jean Fritz stated, "Reading Virginia Hamilton is like being shot out a cannon into the Milky Way." This series was published only a few years after Hamilton became the first Black author to win the Newbery Medal with M.C. HIGGINS, THE GREAT. A terrific set, more often found ex-library.
New York: Greenwillow Books, (1978). 3 volumes, 8.25'' x 5.5'' each. Original quarter pink cloth, brown paper boards. In original color pictorial dust jacket with art after James McMullan (respectively $7.95; $8.95; price-clipped). Brown speckled endpapers. [6], 217, [1]; [10], 180; [8], 179, [3] pages. Review copy slip laid into DUSTLAND. A couple small tape repairs to verso of jacket for GATHERING. Books a trifle bumped, some light creasing around edges of jackets and a bit of shallow wear.
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