Sam Youd John Christopher (10 results)

softcover. Condition: Fine copy. 1st. 8vo, 197 pp.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good softcover introduction by Robert Macfarlane.

Paperback. Condition: Good - Cash. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. The spine is creased. Cover has creases. Unmarked pages. One page has a tear, still readable. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First U.S. paperback edition/printing (1967 Fawcett R1029) in Near Fine (bump to upper right corner pages), unread condition. New, uncredited cover art. uncredited (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 8th printing of the 1972 Collier first paperback edition/printing in Very Fine, unread condition from the original publishers warehouse. Hard to find really nice condition copies like this one, of any printings. Roger Hane (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 2nd U.S. paperback edition/printing (1967 Avon S288 Canadian printing). Fine, unread condition. Sharp copy of this paperback edition with new cover art. Great story - made into a film. Hector Garrido (illustrator).

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. ----------science fiction fantasy pulp magazine, tall digest size. Bump to front cover top edge, appears unread, a near fine copy. Gerard Quinn (front cover) (illustrator).

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket.

dj. 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.…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. An exceptional first edition of John Christopher's post-apocalyptic science fiction novel in which the world is plunged into chaos as grass species die off. The first edition, first impression. In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. A post-apocalyptic science fiction about a virus that kills off grass species, including rice and wheat. In the US, it was published under the title 'No Blade of Grass'. The work of Sam Youd, publishe under the pseudonym John Christopher. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper exceptionally bright, with a touch of edgewear to back strip head and tail. Small closed tear to back strip head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine. None (illustrator). book.…