Donovan’s Brain
first edition
1944 · London
by SIODMAK, CURT
London: Chapman & Hall, 1944. First Edition - British. The rare British first edition in dust jacket. The American edition has a rather bland dust jacket and this British first has a much more surprising dust jacket design image of a man’s head with a portion of his brain exposed, showing the cerebral cortex. Near fine copy with a trace of use in a very good plus bright dust jacket with some very minor dust soiling to the spine and rear panel and with a hint of edge wear.Attractive copy. One of the landmark science fiction and horror novels of the 1940s, Donovan’s Brain, was the first science fiction novel to feature a brain being kept alive outside its body. A very influential novel with many of its elements still seen in science fiction today. Stephen King has picked Donovan’s Brain as one of his ten favorite science fiction - horror - fantasy novels. King wrote “...Donovan’s Brain moves from a scientific basis to outright horror...Siodmak is a fine thinker...the flow of his speculative ideas in Donovan’s Brain is as exciting to follow as the flow of ideas in a novel by Isaac Asimov of Arthur C. Clarke.” Donovan’s Brain has been filmed a remarkable four times and remains one of those classic stories that is still thought provoking and entertaining. (Inventory #: 17233E)