Maturity: Three Stories

Created for Minicon 15 where Sturgeon was the Guest of Honor. Also includes illustrations by James Odbert, 1 page of Editors' Notes by Scott Imes and Stuart W. Wells III, a 2-page introduction by Sturgeon, and an excellent Sturgeon bibliography by Dennis Lien and Jayne Sturgeon. According to the Editors' Notes, Sturgeon started to rewrite "Maturity" for this collection but preferred the older version. The only change is the fixing of a persistent typo: "17 kesteroids" was corrected to "17 ketosteroids".

Edited by Scott Imes & Stuart W. Wells III. Limited to 700 trade copies (priced as shown) and 50 presentation copies (price unknown) which were signed by the author (on his portraiture frontispiece) and six other contributors (on the limitation page) Published to commemorate Sturgeon's appearance as Guest of Honor at Minicon15 "First Edition April,1979" on copyright page (page 2) On limitation page (3) is, "This Special Edition is limited to 750 copies. 700 numbered copies are offered for sale. 50 are reserved for presentation. This is copy number ___". On page 5 is a portrait of Sturgeon, which is flat-signed. Price & info about presentation copies from Locus #221 (May 1979.)