April 12, 2024
1936 MANMADE VIRUS BIOTECHNOLOGY Science Fiction MEDICAL HORROR Book w/DJ Rare!
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Up for auction is a scarce 1936 science fiction novel about the release by a bacteriologist of a deadly plague for which there is no cure, entitled THE MOTIVES of NICHOLAS HOLTZ Being the Weird Tale of the Ironville Virus , by Alexander Laing and Thomas Painter. Published by Farrar & Rinehart in New York in 1936. Frontispiece by Lynd Ward. 309 pages. Book itself bound in black cloth with white lettering and decoration on front cover and spine. Top page edge yellow. Binding firm and interior clean. In VERY GOOD condition. Book retains its original dustjacket. The dustjacket lists "Grosset & Dunlap" as the publisher, but the book itself is listed as Farrar & Rinehart. Rare with the dustjacket, in any case. Dustjacket has some minor edgewear and is in VERY GOOD condition as well. Laing's novel was published on the heels of his highly successful first novel, The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck . Both this novel and the earlier one were biotechnology horror tales, full of bizarre medical monstrosities and procedures. This novel was a very early imagination of what would happen if a manmade virus was unleashed on the world, and is thus a predecessor to Stephen King's The Stand , Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain , and various films such as Outbreak and Contagion . Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution
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