The Seeds of Time.
by WYNDHAM John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Michael Joseph,, [1956]. 8vo., First Edition, endpapers lightly spotted, fore-edges moderately foxed; original black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one short closed tear at lower edge of front panel, chipped with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip, and moderately spotted on (predominantly white) rear panel. The author's fourth book and first collection of short stories, with striking dustwrapper artwork by Richard Barton. Collects ten short stories as follows: 'Chronoclasm', 'Time to Rest', 'Meteor', 'Survival', 'Pawley's Peepholes', 'Opposite Number', 'Pillar to Post', 'Dumb Martian', 'Compassion Circuit', 'Wild Flower'. Very scarce, especially in the dustwrapper.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12783
- Title
- The Seeds of Time.
- Author
- WYNDHAM John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph,
- Date Published
- [1956]
- Keywords
- modern firsts, short stories, john wyndham, triffids, scicne fiction, fantasy, john wyndham, modern first editions, seeds, time
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Thakeham, West Sussex
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