Tomorrow!
by Philip Wylie
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Good
- Seller
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Kirkland, Washington, United States
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About This Item
372pp, black boards with red quarter-cloth. DJ (in clear protective jacket) has small chip on front upper right, chipping on top spine, foxing on edges but is complete, including price (see both photos of dj). True first edition/first printing with Rinehart logo on copyright page. Pages are evenly and lightly foxed throughout for the first inch or so from edges, common for a book of this age printed on less-expensive paper.
Wylie was a prolific writer; this book concerns how two neighboring cities prepare for a nuclear blast, written during the cold war. "Wylie's 1954 novel Tomorrow! dealt graphically with the civilian impact of thermonuclear was to make a case for a strong Civil Defense network in the United States, as he told the story of two neighboring cities (one prepared, one unprepared) before and after an attack by missile-armed Soviet bombers. This was adapted on October 17, 1956, by ABC Radio, as a one-hour drama narrated by Orson Welles produced in cooperation with the Federal Civil Defense Administration." Rare in this good condition.
Wylie was a prolific writer; this book concerns how two neighboring cities prepare for a nuclear blast, written during the cold war. "Wylie's 1954 novel Tomorrow! dealt graphically with the civilian impact of thermonuclear was to make a case for a strong Civil Defense network in the United States, as he told the story of two neighboring cities (one prepared, one unprepared) before and after an attack by missile-armed Soviet bombers. This was adapted on October 17, 1956, by ABC Radio, as a one-hour drama narrated by Orson Welles produced in cooperation with the Federal Civil Defense Administration." Rare in this good condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books Northwest (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1999
- Title
- Tomorrow!
- Author
- Philip Wylie
- Format/Binding
- Black boards with quarter red cloth, white and red lettering on spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing first edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Rinehart & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Pages
- 372
- Size
- 5 1/2" x 8.25"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction Wylie Cold War Atomic Bomb
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- Chipping
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