Deluge by Fowler Wright (60 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st American. First American edition in blue cloth binding with front and spine stamped in green. Good with rubbed boards, cracked spine, dusty top edge, slightly cocked. Great reading copy of this rare book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st American. First American edition in blue cloth binding with front and spine stamped in green, decorated endpapers. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation (1928), 395 pps. VG with rubbed boards, a tiny white spot on spine, edge wear, previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown and is also slightly cocked.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good - Near Fine. 1st Printing. 2003. 1st Printing. Very Good - Near Fine paperback book. A square, tight and clean copy. Light bump to bottom front corner. 330pp. (A).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st American. First American edition in blue cloth binding with front and spine stamped in green, decorated endpapers. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation (1928), 395 pps. VG with slightly bumped corners, edge wear to spine ends and rear hinge gone, top corner torn f.f.e. …

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. Like New. May eventually have some shelf wear from being out in store. All Orders Shipped With Tracking And Delivery Confirmation Numbers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Corners are bumped. Covers have some scuffing. Spine is beginning to chip. Spine is beginning to crack at title page.

first edition. Good no jacket, weak front hinge.

hardcover. Vg, 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No dust jacket. Sun fading to spine. Book tight and binding tight. Pages ends have some foxing, but a very nice copy of this classic. Pages white and clean. First published in 1927, Deluge is one of the most famous of the English catastrophe novels. Beautifully written and action packed RKO Radio Pictures even filmed this story?the novel depicts a flood so severe that it destroys modern civilization, leaving the few survivors to adapt to the rigors of the natural world. Like other English writers responding to the trauma of World War I, Sydney Fowler Wright expresses a loathing of the worst aspects of industrialization. The flood, in his view, becomes an opportunity for the remaking of society. The protagonists soon realize that civilization and technology have divorced them from the knowledge and skills necessary for survival. Released from their over-reliance on social regulation, they struggle to overcome their own brutality to develop a new sense of community. For over 75 years readers have praised this book for its style and wisdom, and debated the meaning of its controversial ending. …

Hardcover. first edition hardcover. very good 1928.

Condition: VERY GOOD. Early printing. Novel set in the near future, where a geologic catastrophe has caused most of the land in Europe and elsewhere to be flooded - however, a small section of the Cotswalds was uplifted and those living there face a fight for survival in a world they are totally unprepared for. A classic, and with today's global warming, one that might be even more relevant now than when it was written. 395 pp. Stylized art deco design on the endpapers. Shows Cosmopolitan on title page, and states first edition, but Grosset and Dunlap on the spine. Very good in dark blue cloth (some mottling to the spine, usual light toning to the pages), no dust jacket.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st ed. 395 pp. 5 x 7 1/2. Dark blue cloth covered boards, stamped in green on front and spine. No dj. Red smudge on front plus soil marks on both boards. Custom endpapers. A few creased pages. Slight separation of interior binding. Ownership markings on front fl.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN . Hardback. First Printing. No dustjacket. Good to Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with minor rubs and bumps to edges and corners of covers, heavy browning and minor dustsoiling to edges of interior pages. No Signature.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. In lightly soiled boards with spine reglued and binding firm. Book is internally unmarked - all it needs is the dust jacket. A prescient science fiction novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 5 x 7 1/2 in. Blue cloth with green lettering. Condition is VERY GOOD ; mild edge wear, wear to ends of spine. Covers clean and a bit dusty/rubbed. Binding tight and text spotless. Fiction. Stax.

Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 395 Pp. Blue Cloth Stamped In Green. First American Edition Stated, 1926. A Bright, Clean, Tight Book, Slightly Used, No Damage, Slight Spine Lean, No Dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First American edition. 395pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with light green ink stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Decorative endpapers. The spine and covers show light edge wear. The front endsheet has a prior owner's ink stamp and name in pen. The text block is only just starting to crack at the rear. The earlier UK edition is cited in the Bleiler checklist and Reginald. This novel, which was later adapted into a film with the same name, is a disaster-themed story in which a geographical upheaval results in parts of Britain sinking under the sea, and turning the Chilterns into an archipelago of very small islands.…

hardcover. First Edition. VG+ (no Dust Jacket). Early environmental disaster novel. Listed in Bleiler and basis for the rather neglected 1933 film directed by Felix E. Feist and starring Sidney Blackmer.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Some tiny spots on front board. Top and bottom of spine are bumped. Bottom cover corners are lightly rubbed. Name on front free endpaper. 395 pages. Decorated endpapers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Green stamped blue cloth. Binding cocked, cloth slightly faded, top stain lightly soiled, very good or better lacking the dust jacket. Early example of post-apocalyptic science fiction.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . Book Good. No dust jacket. Slightly dampstained. Owner's name on front endpage. (science fiction, romance, apocalypse).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dustjacket. 1st Edition Thus. First edition thus, hardcover, has very light bumps to top of spine and lower corners, faint rubbing, and yellow remainder line to bottom edge of text block, otherwise a solid VG+ copy.

Hardcover. reprint hardcover. near fine partial jacket stated first edition, cosmopolitan on the title page, the front of the jacket and the front fly is included, also color facsimile of the rest of the jacket.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

first edition. 1928, very good copy in nice color reproduction jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition in green cloth binding with front and spine stamped in black. Hard to find English edition. London: Fowler Wright Ltd. (1927) 320 pps. VG with sun bleached spine and top edge and lightly soiled boards. Endpapers tanning and top edge showing dust discoloration.…

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket (Science Fiction, Natural Disasters, Romance).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Good/Poor, the inside flap is missing, the bottom half of the dustwrapper (on spine) is also missing, top of dustwrapper has a few small pieces ripped off, and pages are browned.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition stated, with "Cosmopolitan Book Corporation" on title and copyright pages, "Grosset & Dunlap" on spine of book and jacket. Blue cloth with blue lettering. Stain on page foredges of last few pages and on the margin of page 393, cloth edges modestly rubbed, spine cocked, else very good in a fair to good only tattered dust jacket detached at joints, loss along the extremities. Science fiction romance novel.…