The Old Men at the Zoo
by Wilson, Angus
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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DORCHESTER, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1st Edition . Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Secker & Warburg, London, 1961, first edition; 8vo, pp 352; dustwrapper slightly dulled or and with a very little fraying at the edges but a very good copy. The book is Wilson's fourth novel and deals with events immediately preceding a nuclear attack on London, something which leads to a dystopian dictatorship and the incarceration of prisoners at the zoo, by then transformed into a concentration camp. It was in 1983 made into a BBC television serial.
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- Bookseller
- Chesil Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000263
- Title
- The Old Men at the Zoo
- Author
- Wilson, Angus
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 0.90 lbs
- Keywords
- dystopia; concentration camp; nuclear war Alternative History, Political, Suspense, War & Military
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature and Language - Chesil 3;
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