New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Small octavo, cloth. First edition. "Seven proficient SF stories by this anthropologist author. Most of them, such as "Rite of Passage," make imaginative use of his academic specialty. Oliver's first collection, it was highly praised in its day." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 15. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-831].

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., [1984]. Octavo, boards. First hardcover edition (and first printing of the revised text). An anthropologist works desperately to establish communication with the first human-like aliens encountered by Mankind.