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WYNDHAM, John (i.e. John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, 1903-1969). The Day of the Triffids. London: Michael Joseph, 1951. 8° (185 x 120mm). (Tape marks to front and rear endpapers, occasional faint spotting.) Original green cloth lettered in silver, dust-jacket by Patrick Gierth with portrait of the author (tape marks to covers, d.-j. cut short by a couple of mm at head and tail and with some loss to flaps). Provenance: library shelfmarks to front and rear free endpapers.
WYNDHAM, John (i.e. John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, 1903-1969). The Day of the Triffids. London: Michael Joseph, 1951. 8° (185 x 120mm). (Tape marks to front and rear endpapers, occasional faint spotting.) Original green cloth lettered in silver, dust-jacket by Patrick Gierth with portrait of the author (tape marks to covers, d.-j. cut short by a couple of mm at head and tail and with some loss to flaps). Provenance: library shelfmarks to front and rear free endpapers.

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WYNDHAM, John (i.e. John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, 1903-1969). The Day of the Triffids. London: Michael Joseph, 1951. 8° (185 x 120mm). (Tape marks to front and rear endpapers, occasional faint spotting.) Original green cloth lettered in silver, dust-jacket by Patrick Gierth with portrait of the author (tape marks to covers, d.-j. cut short by a couple of mm at head and tail and with some loss to flaps). Provenance: library shelfmarks to front and rear free endpapers.

FIRST EDITION. Currey p.221 (noting textual differences between this and the simultaneously published American edition).

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