Anyone know where I can get a 1963 copy of , "The Man Who Fell to Earth" ?

[Sequoia]

The copies out now all have revised dates and some things have been left out. I saw the very odd movie over the weekend and would like to find an original copy. I read some of the first pages off Amazon. I really, really HATE it when publishers think they can change an original. The Martian Chronicles was changed also.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

1. PISSES ME TOO

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. Check alibris.com

They do fairly specialized searches.........

[realisticphish]

3. here:

http://www.biblio.com/search.php?author=&publisher=&title=&isbn=&keywords=man+who+fell+earth&country=&cond=&format=&minprice=&maxprice=&mindate=1963&maxdate=1963&order=priceasc&pageper=20&dist=5&zip=&stage=1

The first result was 63, and I assume there are other copies of it

I love biblio, I used it all the time when I worked in a Rare Books library. Good for determining whether dealers are ripping you off

edit: more refined result

[Sequoia]

10. Thanks. I'll bookmark this website.

On order. Yahoo!

[kestrel91316]

4. Try paperbackswap.com.

[leveymg]

5. My Dad had me read the script before it went into production

Dad was a Mad Ave adman and producer. He used to run projects by me when I was in my early teens. Along with the Bowie vehicle there was a New York Magazine series about a Queens dance subculture that got made into Saturday Night Fever - I liked the sex and drugs part in the print version of both treatments a whole lot better than what made it onto the screen. But, what else would a 13 year old fixate on?

Sorry, I don't still have the scripts or the 1963 book.

[brer cat]

6. alibris is good, and also abe.com

On abe click on advanced search, enter the title, then on the right-hand side, enter 1963 as the max publication date. That should get you what you are looking for. Good luck!

[vademocrat]

7. here's a link to a search on Abe Books - it lists several copies

If you use Advanced Search you can search by publication year...

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bi=0&bx=off&ds=30&sortby=2&sts=t&tn=The+man+who+fell+to+earth&x=39&y=4&yrh=1975&yrl=1963

[Sequoia]

11. Wow, there sure is a lot of copies. Bookmarking. Thanks.

[kickysnana]

8. Ah, back when SciFi was sold along side the "adult" books.

I loved to shadow my Dad when he went to junkyards, electronic supply stores and of course certain used book stores that carried SciFi, not all did. Dad probably didn't even notice the adult books in the next rack but I secretly glanced that way and learned a thing or two. (LOL).

[Sequoia]

9. Thanks everyone.

Hey, that's pretty funny. When my kid was a wee tot we went into the video store and off she marches to the "adult section" behind a curtain. I nearly fell through the floor on that one. Next time I went I made sure I was alone.

[raccoon]

12. What kinds of things have been left out?

Things that might make it seem old-fashioned, such as references to Packards? Things that aren't PC?

I hate it when publishers do that too.

[Sequoia]

13. I think there's a comment on Amazon about it.

I don't know why the dates had to be changed. Why? Like readers wouldn't believe people thought about such things in the 1960s but had to move the dates up to the 1980s so it would be more, what, compelling? Can you imangine trying to move Huckelberry Finn into 1964? Horrors !!!

[raccoon]

14. Can't find any comment on amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Fell-Earth/dp/B000BY9EEI/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240333020&sr=8-17

[Sequoia]

15. Here it is...you have to click on all the comments thingamajig.

http://www.amazon.com/review/ROXL2B7MO8OP0/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#ROXL2B7MO8OP0

I have found myself to be something of a fan of speculative fictions. And The man who fell to Earth by Walter Tevis has been, for a long time now, a book that I have grown to appreciate in what it says and how it expresses it, about the human condition through an inhuman perspective. And I happen to own an edition that was published in 1963, so you can imagine my disappointment when I bought a new copy and found the revisions, which were not only unnecessary but also inconsistent. Now, I agree that some "dated" books are in need of revisions, however, when Walter Tevis (may he rest in peace) had revised his book, The man who fell to Earth, he left it lacking in it's original believability by leaving inconsistencies in the dates that the novel takes place within. The novel was always meant to take place ten years or so in the future and I believe that before his death in 1984, Mr. Tevis had intended to possibly revise it yet again but hadn't the chance due to his fatal run in with cancer

[RebelOne]

16. Oh no, The Martian Chronicles changed! That's sacrilegious.

That is my all-time favorite sci-fi book.

[Sequoia]

17. I was just telling someone at work this morning about this book being changed.

Anyway, I ordered the original Man Who Fell....(thanks everyone) but it sure is taking it's time getting to me. :(