Christopher john 1922 2012 (5 risultati)

Condizione: leido. RUSTICA 3135.

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Not price-clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 253 p. ; 19 cm. Subjects: Science fiction; Themes: Disasters; Fiction in English; American writers; Novels; Sci-Fi. 1 Kg.…

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Not price-clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 253 p. ; 19 cm. Subjects: Science fiction; Themes: Disasters; Fiction in English; American writers; Novels; Sci-Fi. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. First Edition. Previous owner's rubber stamp on front endpaper. A 30mm tear at head of dust-jacket spine. Strip of adhesive tape across head of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival cover.; 271, [1 (blank)] pages. Black boards with white lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 184 x 123mm. Dust-jacket art by Wildsmith. The author's first science fiction novel. "The hero is a scientist with a secret which will give supreme authority to any group in control of it. Inevitably he finds himself the centre of murderous intrigues. He, however, is interested, not in world-power, but in the whereabouts of the girl with whom he has fallen in love." - from dust-jacket blurb. …

First Edition. [Post-apocalyptic adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.230 [2]. Publisher's black cloth, white titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 10s 6d to front flap. Lightly toned throughout but otherwise clean. Previous owner's signature in blue ink to front flyleaf, small Foyles label to pastedown. Top edge toned, lower edge lightly bumped. Toning to jacket, especially spine. Moderate shelfwear with some loss to jacket extremities. Very good. A gritty, realistic vision of how the world could end - to a virus that wipes out rice crops. Christopher doesn't terrify his reader with extraterrestrial threats or nuclear war but a slow famine that rapidly turns neighbours against each other.…