PEPEL BIKINI ASHES OF THE BIKINI ATOLL

by Lev Petrov, Arkady Strugatsky

$385 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Moscow: Detgiz, 1958. Octavo, pp. 1-4 5-150 151-152 cloth-backed boards. First edition. Arkady Strugatsky's first book. The novel was first published in 1956 in Dalniy Vostok magazine at the peak of the Cold War. The story is set against the U.S. nuclear weapon tests that took place from 1946 to 1958 and tells how the tests affected Japanese people near the Bikini atoll. Boards rubbed at edges, corner tips worn, minor

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