The Drowned World.

£1,000 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

key climate change novel First hardback edition of this key climate change novel, as with his 1966 novel The Crystal World anticipating the more universal adoption of climate change science by many years. The novel also imagines mankind's innate primitive tendencies when exposed to an environment more akin to the Triassic period. This edition is preceded by a US paperback edition, but this Gollancz edition is the preferred, collector's edition. First UK hardback edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's red boards, titles to spine gilt, with the unclipped dustjacket, spine panel tanned, small nicks to corners and spine ends, else very good.

• Printing: first
• Binding: Hardcover

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