The Organ Grinders

New York: Avon Books, 1998. SIGNED. Purchased New. VG/NF. 1st/1st. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending with 1. Signed by Bill Fitzhugh on the title page. The unread small book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding and good tips. Spine head pushed and creased. Boards are clean and unmarred. The textblock has indentations to the middle of the top on pages 189-221, else clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($20.00) with a light crease to the spine head, else fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 368 pages. 5¼ x 8" tall.

Paul Symon is an environmentalist who's out to make the world a better place, but he faces too much disjointed information, public apathy, and self-serving talk. Not to mention greedy despoiler Jerry Landis, a venture capitalist dying of a rare disease that accelerates the aging process. Landis cares only about making more money and finding a way to arrest his medical condition. That brings him and his fortune to the wild frontier of biotechnology, where his people are illegally experimenting with cross-species organ transplantation in California while breeding genetically altered primates at a secret site in the piney woods of south-central Mississippi.

There's also an eco-terrorist on the loose, bent on teaching hard lessons to people who think the Earth and its creatures are theirs to destroy. These forces, together with fifty thousand extra-large chacma baboons, collide in an explosion of laughter and wonder.