SIBSON, Francis H[enry].

The Survivors

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); gray cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in navy blue on spine and front cover; orange topstain; dustjacket and publisher's wraparound advertising band; [10], 311, [1]pp; illustrated fold-out map. Crown gently nudged, else a fresh, Fine copy with a bright, even topstain. Dustjacket is price-clipped, with light wear to spine ends and a few closed tears; an unfaded, Near Fine example with the scarce wraparound band, slightly dusty, with some toning to flap folds and a diagonal tear at heel.

First novel in Sibson's Survivors sequence, which describes "the Near Future volcanic creation of a new island in the Sargasso Sea, an event so violent that it causes two ocean liners to collide; the survivors of this cataclysm find themselves on the created island, which they name New Canada, and soon find themselves involved in international conflicts surrounding claims to the new territory" (The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction). OCLC finds 9 copies for this edition. BLEILER, p.250 (1972 ed.).

Price: $225.00

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