THE DOOMSDAY MEN: AN ADVENTURE
by Priestley, J.B
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- A very good copy in a very good price clipped dust jacket, light shelf wear to edges, chip missing from lower right corner of fr
- Seller
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. First U.S. edition. A very good copy in a very good price clipped dust jacket, light shelf wear to edges, chip missing from lower right corner of front panel. (240). Octavo, Hardcover. "...a group of religious fanatics come close to succeeding in their plot to destroy the world by bombarding a lump of a newly discovered radioactive element with a cyclotron..." - Brians: Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984 pp 6. Bleiler: The Checklist of Science Fiction & Supernatural Fiction.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 240
- Title
- THE DOOMSDAY MEN: AN ADVENTURE
- Author
- Priestley, J.B
- Book Condition
- Used - A very good copy in a very good price clipped dust jacket, light shelf wear to edges, chip missing from lower right corner of fr
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- SF
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John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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