THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS

by John Wyndham, John Beynon Harris

$1,000 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Preceded the British edition that has textual differences. Biologically engineered sentient plants raised for food, that walk, sting and feast on carrion, prey on mankind after most humans are blinded by malfunctioning secret military satellites orbiting the earth. “... compares favorably to H. G. Wells’ catastrophe novels,

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