COMET

by Jane White, Jane Brady

$45 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975 . Octavo, boards. First edition. After a catastrophic war severely reduces the world's population, most people live miserably on farms and in small villages under the brutal authoritarian rule of the Leaders. The cities are overgrown with vegetation, animals have gone feral, and machines have disappeared. Books are forbidden, as is childbirth without the permission of the State. Into this

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