London: Jarrolds Publisher London Limited, 1934. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-286 [287-288: blank] + 8-page publisher's catalogue "for Spring, 1934" inserted at rear, eight inserted plates, 17 illustrations in the text, original red cloth, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition in English. Fascinating nonfiction speculation by a German writer on the probable doom of the solar system: the cooling of the Sun, the extinction of man, the rise of the insects, the end of all life, the Sun's nova. [Reference: Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 172. Bleiler (1948), p. 218].