first edition
1967 · Garden City
by Knight, Damon
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1967. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Collects "Rule Golden," "Natural State," and "The Dying Man." "Natural State" 1951, a novella by Damon Knight expanded into a novel, MASTERS OF EVOLUTION (1959), depicts isolated post-nuclear war cities at war with the prosperous surrounding countryside using chemical and bioengineered weapons. Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 212; pp. 234-5. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 243. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#145149) (Inventory #: 145149)