WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE with AFTER WORLDS COLLIDE.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933, 1943. Octavo, two volumes, (1): pp. [i-vi] vii-viii 1-344 (2): pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] ix-xiii [xiv-xvi] 1-341 [342-344: blank], (1): original red cloth, front panel stamped in light blue and ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in light blue, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed, (2): original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in gold fore edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. First editions. Signed letter by Wylie laid in. The first novel and the sequel. Earth is about to destroyed from a collision with a rogue planet, a chosen few are to escape via a spaceship. A famous, popular catastrophe novel that was a huge commercial success (over half a million copies sold) and was made into a film that helped spark the SF movie boom of the 1950s. In the sequel the survivors start a new civilization. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-3; (1981) 2-130; (1987) 2-146; (1995) 2-156; and (2004) II-70. Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, pp. 125-26. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 042. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 62. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 86. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 27. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2463-68. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 14. Reginald 00801]. The first book is a fine copy, the second nearly fine with some darkening to the spine and rubs to the gilt lettering of the publisher lettering. No dust jackets but the front, rear, spine and flaps are tipped in to the first book, same are laid in to the second book along with pieces of the wrap around promotional band. Both housed in a custom leather clamshell box with painted sides, front with an image of a planet approaching on collision course with the Earth. (33353). Item #33353
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