LEST DARKNESS FALL
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First edition
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1941 . Octavo, pp. i-vi vii-ix x-xii 1-379 380: blank , original pictorial black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in white, top edge stained yellow, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. The author's first book of fiction. An early classic of modern SF in which the protagonist is thrown back in time to the end of the Roman Empire and makes an unsuccessful attempt to use
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