ALAS, BABYLON

by Pat Frank, Harry Hart Frank

$850 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1959 . Octavo, cloth. First edition. The inhabitants of Fort Repose, an isolated, small town in central Florida, cooperate to maintain order and stability during a catastrophic nuclear war. This best-selling novel is an American pastorale, a hymn to self-sufficiency and the virtues of small-town life ... {The book has something of the appeal of George Stewart's EARTH

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