The Tide Went Out

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1960* Publisher: Corgi Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing a desolate landscape. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Spine creased and somewhat dished. Slight crease to rear cover. Spine edges rubbed. This book was covered in an attached polythene jacket leaving sellotape marks to the inside of the covers and the end-papers. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. Considerable tanning & darkening especially to page margins and edges. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 220 pp. text. iv pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- The trouble with people?is that nobody really believes they can be destroyed. It'll always be some other unfortunate who gets in the way of the truck, or the bomb, or who can't escape the radiation. Anybody knows man now has the power to destroy the world ? nobody believes it would happen. It just ain't possible. BUT there might be ways in which the misuse of atomics could eliminate life ? and you wouldn't even know it was happening, let alone believe it. At first. Some things after all, are unimaginable. For instance the world couldn't conceivably dry up. The idea's ridiculous, it just isn't possible. A timely tale.* This is a VG text copy of the 1st thus with some considerable ageing and light reading wear.*