Krakatit

New York: Macmillan, 1925. First American Edition. Octavo. 20cm. Publisher's blue cloth with geometrically decorated golden paper title labels to spine and front board. Lacking dustjacket. 408pp. Light bumping to spine ends, some scuffing to the edges of the cloth on the spine, fading to paper title label, otherwise clean, bright and strong. Handsome and solid. Internally clean. Cited by some as being the first nuclear thriller, in which an engineer develops an explosive of world destroying power, that can be detonated by remote control.