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STOWAWAY TO MARS.
London: Nova Publications Ltd., [1953]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First printing of the revised text. Nova Science Fiction Novels No. 1. The author's second SF book, first published in 1936 as PLANET PLANE. Currey, p. 222. Harbottle and Holland B76.
PLANET PLANE by John Beynon [pseudonym].
London: Newnes, [1936]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5 [6] 7-247 [248], original yellow cloth, spine stamped in black. First edition. The author's third book and second SF novel. An early interplanetary story by this noted British SF writer best known for fine catastrophe novels published under his John Wyndham pseudonym. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 69. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 33. Bleiler (1978), p. 22. Reginald 15715.
STOWAWAY TO MARS...
London: Nova Publications Ltd., [1953]. Octavo, cover by Gordon Hutchings, pictorial wrappers. First printing of the revised text. "Nova Science Fiction Novels" No. 1. The author's second SF book, first published in 1936 as PLANET PLANE. Currey, p. 222. Harbottle and Holland B76.
STOWAWAY TO MARS...
London: Nova Publications Ltd., [1953]. Octavo, cover by Gordon Hutchings, pictorial wrappers. First printing of the revised text. "Nova Science Fiction Novels" No. 1. The author's second SF book, first published in 1936 as PLANET PLANE. Currey, p. 222. Harbottle and Holland B76.
THE GALLANT SIX HUNDRED.
New York: Mason and Lipscomb Publishers, 1973. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. Historical account of the charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean war.
THE CHRYSALIDS.
London: Michael Joseph, [1955]. Octavo, boards. First U.K. edition. Published earlier in the U.S. with textual differences as RE-BIRTH (1955). Post nuclear war novel. "In the aftermath of a great nuclear war, the puritanical survivors attempt to root out all genetic mutations. Certain children, however have telepathic ability-and they represent the true hope for a fearful, hidebound human race. Engagingly written, literate, and a bit tame, the novel has long been a set text in British schools." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 66. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1298. Berger, Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 184-5. Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, pp. 347-8. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 255-6. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1755-58. King list, p. 391.
CONSIDER HER WAYS & OTHERS.
London: Michael Joseph, [1961]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects six stories including "A Long Spoon." According the Berger (Science Fiction and the New Dark Age, pp. 196-8), Wyndham's "haunting" novella, "Consider Her Ways," in which "the preventable is not prevented," is "the quintessence of dystopian fiction." Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 261.
THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. Octavo. Cloth. First edition. The precedes the British edition that has textual differences. Runner-up for the 1952 International Fantasy Award. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-199. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 5.
THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The precedes the British edition that has textual differences. Runner-up for the 1952 International Fantasy Award. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-199. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 5.
THE KRAKEN WAKES.
London: Michael Joseph, [1953]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's fourth science fiction novel, the second using the John Wyndham pseudonym. Invasion of earth by beings from another planet who need to exist under conditions of enormous pressure found deep under the sea. Published later the same year in the U.S. as Out Of The Deeps with textual differences. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-412.
THE KRAKEN WAKES.
London: Michael Joseph, [1953]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's fourth science fiction novel, the second using the John Wyndham pseudonym. Invasion of earth by beings from another planet who need to exist under conditions of enormous pressure found deep under the sea. Published later the same year in the U.S. as Out Of The Deeps with textual differences. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-412.
THE OUTWARD URGE.
London: Michael Joseph, [1959]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects four Troon stories. "A brief, episodic 'family saga' about the near future exploration of space." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 271.
THE SEEDS OF TIME.
London: Michael Joseph, [1956]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Wyndham's second collection of short fiction. Collects ten stories. "A likable gathering of SF stories, most of them proficient treatments of fairly obvious themes. Among the most enjoyable are 'Pawley's Peepholes' (1951) and 'Dumb Martian' (1952), well-mannered SF comedies in a very English vein." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), pp. 319-320.
TALES OF GOOSEFLESH AND LAUGHTER.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1956]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine 182. Paperback original. Collects eleven stories from 1949-1955. Some, but not all, first published in the collection JIZZLE (1954). This is the author's first collection published in the U.S.