When Worlds Collide
by Wylie, Philip and Edwin Balmer
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1933. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 344 pp. Duodecimo. [20 cm]. Brown cloth over boards with yellow stamped title on spine. Deckled edges. Dust jacket is in very good + condition, sunned, particularly at spine, with some losses to head of spine. "A Great Imaginative Novel of the Atomic Age" --from the front panel of dust jacket.
Synopsis
When Worlds Collide is a 1933 science fiction novel co-written by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer; they both also co-authored the sequel After Worlds Collide (1934). It was first published as a six-part monthly serial in Blue Book magazine, illustrated by Joseph Franké.
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Details
- Seller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 64216
- Title
- When Worlds Collide
- Author
- Wylie, Philip and Edwin Balmer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- J.B. Lippincott Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- science fiction; hardcover; collectible; red scare; atomic bomb; nuclear war
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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