The World At Bay

E-157: John C. Winston. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1954. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. The John C. Winston Company. 1954. 208 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Alex Schomburg designed DJ has light shelf-wear present (DJ is lightly chipped and worn with a chip present to the rear panel, panels lightly rubbed). Bound in cloth boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities (discolored along the spine). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. No one believed Professor Elrick of the London Radar Research Laboratory when he announced in 1977 that Earth was in imminent danger of attack. Ever since his discovery of the dark star, Nero, the Professor and his young assistant, Jim Shannon, had studied the planet and its satellites through the radaroscope with a growing sense of impending doom. There seemed to be positive proof that the third planet, Poppea, had a civilization which was technologically far more advanced than Earth's! E-157; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages .