LOCUSTS.**

UK,12mo wraps,no dw/dj - as issued,p/back Original,1st edn. [True UK,1st with Australian price,$2.95 to rear wrap, and listing the author's 'Night of the Crabs' - no other later titles listed. Softback/paperback Original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title. Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but p/back Originals are published prior to any other format in the country of origin,and sometimes,even worldwide.] VG.No owner inscrptn.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,wrap-around colour artwork by Josh Kirby,illustrated wraps with white and white-outlined red letters to front,with author of Hight of the Crabs also listed in white,as the only listed title by him.White+red letters to spine/backstrip which has reading creases from partial reading.Rear cover with continuation of illustration/photograph and white+red lettered prose extract to same - UK price scartched/inked Australia price $2.95. Minimal shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to corners and edges - no nicks, tears or splits present.Top +fore-edges aged/toned - as usual/normal; contents bright,tight,text body clean but inevitable page-edge toning - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages corners. UK,12mo,(approx 7" x 4.50") p/back Original, 1st edn, 1-230pp+2pp publisher adverts to rear.
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It seems the start of a glorious summer as Alan Alton and his family settle into their new home in the Shropshire hills. Then the insects start to appear.First there's one. then hundreds.thousands. millions.A smothering tide of destruction covers the land.As the heat-wave continues mercilessly week after week,the horde of invaders grows - a hideous,red-eyed devastation spreading across town and country. Biting,stripping,devouring,and hating.Before this onslaught the human population turns to flight.As panic grows, the death-toll rises and the whole country is plunged into chaos.Britain is being eaten alive.Can nothing stop the locusts?
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