Shadow on the Hearth
by MERRIL, Judith
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, 1950. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth hardcover; [8],277,[3]pp. Fine in bright, unclipped dustwrapper (priced $3.00 on front flap).
The author's first novel, a cold-war classic set in a genteel suburb of New York following an apocalyptic nuclear attack. Source for the 1954 television drama Atomic Attack which starred Phyllis Baxter and Walter Matthau. "...One of the very best stories of nuclear Holocaust." (Encyclopedia of Science fiction, on-line resource).
The author's first novel, a cold-war classic set in a genteel suburb of New York following an apocalyptic nuclear attack. Source for the 1954 television drama Atomic Attack which starred Phyllis Baxter and Walter Matthau. "...One of the very best stories of nuclear Holocaust." (Encyclopedia of Science fiction, on-line resource).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59821
- Title
- Shadow on the Hearth
- Author
- MERRIL, Judith
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1950
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Soviet Union; HUAC, Cold War, Red Scare; Nukes; Dystopias;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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