Sherriff (R.C.) The Hopkins Manuscript

London, Gollancz, 1939.

First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.

Published in 1939 as the world was teetering on the brink of global war, the novel describes how the nations of the world, previously bent on destroying each other, band together to meet a common catastrophe. The story takes place in West London where the main character, Edgar Hopkins, writes his own narrative about a lunar catastrophe in which the moon collides with the Earth.