Wyndham (John) The Midwich Cuckoos
£450
London, Michael Joseph, 1957.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Wyndham’s classic sci-fi novel, described by Margaret Atwood as his “chef d’œuvre”, while the dramatist Dan Rebellato described it as “a searching novel of moral ambiguities” dealing with rape, abortion, motherhood, and the struggle between men and women quite as much as with alien invasion.
In stock
Minor toning to free endpapers, spotting to extremities of text-block; boards very good; jacket very good.
Jacket design by Dick Hart.
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