Michael Joseph, 1951
Stated First Edition, First Printing A fine book in a fine/near fine unrestored original jacket. Runner up for the 1952 International Fantasy Award.
An usually bright, clean, fresh book with vibrant green cloth boards. Bright unfaded silver titles to spine. The book is in fine condition with sharp corners and no edgewear and just one tiny spot to the front. The binding is tight and square. The end pages and internal pages are clean, bright and flat with no owner names and no inscriptions. The internal pages are clean, bright and flat with no stains, no marks, no writing, no bent pages, no age toning and no foxing. Beautiful clean, crisp book, internally appearing as unread!. Please see images.
The book comes with the unrestored, original dust jacket. The very slightly nicked jacket has strong vibrant colors with a bit of faint toning to the rear panel. The dust jacket is NOT price clipped and has a stated price of 10s 6d. net on the front inner flap. The fantastic jacket art was designed by Patrick Gierth, and is now protected in a new clear removeable archival cover. Stunning jacket!
A superb fresh copy of this classic sci-fi title with the original dust jacket in stunning and one of the nicest we have offered. Variations of this early apocalypse theme have been used since in many TV and movie series.
