CHARLES ERIC MAINE. — The Tide Went Out. A novel.

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 190pp + [i] publisher's advertisement. Green boards lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Top edge spotted and a little very light creasing to the base of the rear board. Tiny dealer plate to the front pastedown (obscured by the wrapper flap). A very good copy in chipped and toned non-price-clipped dust wrapper with four or five quite small areas of edge-loss. An uncommon science fiction novel: a series of mistakes made by atomic scientists results in the possible destruction of the world., Very Good, Good