The World in Winter.
"There was a blizzard early in November and, while the snow still lay unthawed in the gutters and gardens, another fiercer and colder." First edition of John Christopher's The World in Winter
The World in Winter.
CHRISTOPHER, John.
$100.00
Item Number: 96196
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962.
First edition of the author’s post-apocalyptic work in which an new Ice Age descends on England. Octavo, original cloth. Good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Stein.
British author Christopher Samuel Youd became best known for his science fiction novels published under the pseudonym John Christopher, including The Death of Grass and the young-adult series The Tripods. The World in Winter follows a group British refugees who flee to Nigeria in the threat of a new ice age caused by a reduction in the output of the Sun who come to find the country full of English refugees living in slums.