DEXTER, William. Children of the Void
DEXTER, William [pseud. for William Thomas Pritchard]. Children of the Void. London: Peter Owen. 1955. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the striking dust jacket designed by Eric Patton. Some light stains to the cloth boards towards fore-edge, the gilt dulled, the binding tight and square. The textblock edges darkened with some light offsetting to the endpapers, else clean. The dust jacket unclipped (10s 6d net) with a sticker to the spine panel, a tear along the front flap edge, with some other smal nicks and chips to corners and edges. Quite uncommon, however.
One of only two published novels by Pritchard, this a follow-up to ‘World of Eclipse’ (1954). Both novels concern ‘not supermen or scientists but ordinary, bewildered men and women’ after a cataclysmic World War Three all but destroys the human race. The events take place across a desolate London, the moons of Jupiter, and unknown worlds. The wonderful jacket is by Eric Patton whose output, much like the publisher’s foray into science fiction, was all too minimal.
DEXTER, William [pseud. for William Thomas Pritchard]. Children of the Void. London: Peter Owen. 1955. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the striking dust jacket designed by Eric Patton. Some light stains to the cloth boards towards fore-edge, the gilt dulled, the binding tight and square. The textblock edges darkened with some light offsetting to the endpapers, else clean. The dust jacket unclipped (10s 6d net) with a sticker to the spine panel, a tear along the front flap edge, with some other smal nicks and chips to corners and edges. Quite uncommon, however.
One of only two published novels by Pritchard, this a follow-up to ‘World of Eclipse’ (1954). Both novels concern ‘not supermen or scientists but ordinary, bewildered men and women’ after a cataclysmic World War Three all but destroys the human race. The events take place across a desolate London, the moons of Jupiter, and unknown worlds. The wonderful jacket is by Eric Patton whose output, much like the publisher’s foray into science fiction, was all too minimal.
DEXTER, William [pseud. for William Thomas Pritchard]. Children of the Void. London: Peter Owen. 1955. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the striking dust jacket designed by Eric Patton. Some light stains to the cloth boards towards fore-edge, the gilt dulled, the binding tight and square. The textblock edges darkened with some light offsetting to the endpapers, else clean. The dust jacket unclipped (10s 6d net) with a sticker to the spine panel, a tear along the front flap edge, with some other smal nicks and chips to corners and edges. Quite uncommon, however.
One of only two published novels by Pritchard, this a follow-up to ‘World of Eclipse’ (1954). Both novels concern ‘not supermen or scientists but ordinary, bewildered men and women’ after a cataclysmic World War Three all but destroys the human race. The events take place across a desolate London, the moons of Jupiter, and unknown worlds. The wonderful jacket is by Eric Patton whose output, much like the publisher’s foray into science fiction, was all too minimal.