For the ten short stories collected here, John Wyndham turns his imagination to, among other sujects, body-snatching, time-travel and mind-travel, and the the tricky business of interplanetary colonization.
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John Wyndham was born in 1903 in the Midlands. After leaving school, he tried his hand at several careers, including farming, law and advertising, before starting to write stories in 1925. During the war he worked as a censor in the Ministry of Information and afterwards served in the Army. The Day of The Triffids was published in 1951, and was followed by many other famous works of science fiction, including The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids and The Midwich Cuckoos. Wyndham died in 1969.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First U.K. Edition. 253pp. Library stamp on title page and front endpapers. Black boards w gilt lettering on spine. Bumping to corners, head and tail. Binding lightly cocked but sound. Adhesive ghosts at top and bottom of boards. Black illustrated DJ shows light soiling to white back panel, very small wear to bottom corners, shallow wear to head and tail. DJ preserved in new archival cover. Original jacket design by Richard Barton. First published in 1956 (London), this is the 10th impression, stated. Seller Inventory # 042260
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