WYNDHAM, John. — THE SEEDS OF TIME.

London: Michael Joseph, 1956. The first edition, 8vo., pp.253, black hardcover, gilt; light roll to spine, edges foxed, a very good copy, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed and chipped to extremities, with closed tears at head of foot of folds over joints. Includes the stories Chronoclasm, Time to Rest, Meteor, Survival, Pawley’s Peepholes, Opposite Number, Pillar to Post, Dumb Martian, Compassion Circuit, and Wild Flower. First published in 1956, the fifth book to be published under the name ‘John Wyndham’, and comprising ten short stories and ‘novelettes’, two of which - Meteor, and Time to Rest - had previously appeared pseudonymously under the pen-name ‘John Beynon’.