The Twenty-Fifth Hour 1940 Herbert Best ~ First Edition ~ Post Apocalyptic Novel
$100.00
Title: The Twenty-Fifth Hour
Author: Herbert Best
Description: First Edition stated. Red cloth stamped in gilt and black. Browning along gutters of endpapers; periodic finger smudges, else interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is edgeworn and has some general soiling (mostly noticeable on rear panel); not price clipped ($2.50); in an archival mylar sleeve. 321 pages.
Herbert Best's post-apocalyptic novel, presenting a grim vision of un-ending war, plague, starvation, and the near-extinction of mankind. In this future, war has ruined Europe, the Western Hemisphere decimated by disease, and the remaining humans reduced to cannibalistic, wandering bands. From dead cities and depopulated wastelands, a young American woman, a British officer, and a few other remaining individuals quest for havens of civilization and their own survival.
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+
Jacket Condition: Good+
Publisher: Random House
Place: New York
Year: 1940
Keywords: science fiction, catastrophe, disaster, post apocalyptic,
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