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DELUGE in Blue & White Decorated Dustjacket , Novel of Future, Story of Flood caued by general depression of Soil in Europe, Geological upheavals result in widespread flooding, but southern England is elevated to make the Cotswolds a tiny archipelago

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DELUGE in Blue & White Decorated Dustjacket , Novel of Future, Story of Flood caued by general depression of Soil in Europe, Geological upheavals result in widespread flooding, but southern England is elevated to make the Cotswolds a tiny archipelago

by S. Fowler Wright, who is Lawyer & Dante Scholar, Inner Flap DJ Original Price .50 Intact, Color Endpapers Match DJ Illustration,

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Cosmopolitan, New York, , 1928 HBDJ, 1928, Stated 1ST Edition, Dates Match on title & copyright pg, 1st Printing, VG/GOOD, AS-IS, DJ slight scuff, rub, wear & tiny chips Tears Edges, Btm Spine DJ small Piece out removing part of Cosmopolitan, DJ Protected Clear Mylar, Original blue cloth titled in green, Octavo, Interior nice, tight clean light Wear, Fox, 395 pgs, front and spine panels stamped in light green, top edge stained yellow, decorated endpapers. [note: first and last leaves are blanks],, The inhabitants' struggle for existence is described with a cold realism not previously seen, one of the very best catastrophe stories, The first novel written by Wright at the age of 53 when he appeared on the literary horizon like a cyclonic force. A fantasy of unknown w orlds struggling for survival. Laid in is an original bookmark with a short biography of S. Fowler Wright on one side and an ad for Jerrold's "Quex" on the other side. Novel set in the near future, where a geologic catastrophe has caused most of the land in Europe and elsewhere to be flooded - however, a small section of the Cotswalds was uplifted and those living there face a fight for survival in a world they are totally unprepared for. A classic, and with today's global warming, one that might be even more relevant now than when it was written.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

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Title
DELUGE in Blue & White Decorated Dustjacket , Novel of Future, Story of Flood caued by general depression of Soil in Europe, Geological upheavals result in widespread flooding, but southern England is elevated to make the Cotswolds a tiny archipelago
Author
S. Fowler Wright, who is Lawyer & Dante Scholar, Inner Flap DJ Original Price $2.50 Intact, Color Endpapers Match DJ Illustration,
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
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Edition
1st Edition
Publisher
Cosmopolitan, New York,
Date Published
1928
Keywords
S. Fowler Wright, fantasy floods DISASTERS

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