THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS

by John Wyndham, pseud. of John Beynon Harris

$1,500 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. First American Edition. The author's best-known work, a catastrophe novel about Londoners stricken with blindness due to a cosmic phenomenon, and wave of large, intelligent, carnivorous plants taking over the city. An attractive copy of a science fiction highspot, making all of the important lists, and basis for several film adaptations. Item #2389

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