THE DOOMSDAY MEN: AN ADVENTURE. New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1938. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-287 [288: blank] [289: colophon] [290-294: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], credits page and title page printed in green and black, original black cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed, decorated endpapers. First U.S. edition. "... 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, p. 6. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 73. Bleiler (1978), p. 161. Reginald 11906. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 2039. A very good copy in good dust jacket with shelf wear at edges, soiling to rear panel, and a number of tiny pin pricks near spine fold of same. (#130436).

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