London: G. Bell & Sons Ltd, 1934. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] 1-309 [310-312: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in metallic green and red, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition, first issue. Post-catastrophe story set in future Russia during a new Ice Age. War has devastated civilization and tribally organized survivors are gradually being dispossessed by giant reptiles. "This narrative must stand as one of the high points in British sf of the 1930s ..." - Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 512. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 2-60; (1987) 2-64; and (2004) II-674. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 66. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 727. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 152. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 141. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 697. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, p. 244. Bleiler (1978), p. 125. Reginald 09115].