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First printing. The author's first short story collection. Includes five stories, "The Heat Death of the Universe," "The Holland of the Mind," "Instructions for Exiting this Building in Case of Fire," "Sheep" and "Busy About the Tree of Life," and a warm and affectionate introduction by Thomas M. Disch. The title story, originally written in 1967, has been frequently anthologized and is considered one of the best of the "New Wave" - or, as Disch put it "the most technically accomplished and humane mosaic fiction of The New Wave." 204 pp. Fine in dark blue cloth with gold lettering in the original clear mylar dust jacket. Uncommon in hardcover. .ISBN # 0-914232-894 

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