Author: John Baxter
Title: The Hermes Fall
Description: New York, Simon and Schuster, 1978 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of John Baxter's novel about the collision of the asteroid Hermes with the earth. The first edition, first impression, with the publisher's price unclipped dust wrapper. Flat signed by Baxter to the title page. Australian born author and biographer John Baxter offers a thrilling science fiction novel in which reports from an orbiting observatory show that on Monday, August 25, 1980, the asteroid Hermes will strike the United States with an impact more deadly than the atom bomb. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart, with fading to back strip and bumping to spine head and tail. Publisher's stamp to text block tail. Closed tear and edgewear to tail of front wrap, with edgewear to back strip head and tail. Marks to rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Flat signed to title page. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good Indeed.

Keywords: science fiction asteroid The Off-Worlders asteroid None


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