The Burning

by James Gunn (signed)
Cover by Robert Foster

Dell Books First Edition

Description: Mass market paperback book published by Dell Books in 1972. The copyright page states 'First Printing - February 1972' and no further printings are indicated, making this a first printing. A paperback original. Signed by the author on the title page without inscription or personalization. A novel consisting of three connected stories (two novelettes and a novella) that were published separately in the magazines, combined in book for here for the first time.

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Autographed James Gunn books for sale

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From the First Page: "Death to the scientists!"

The cry for blood vengeance went up all over the world. Too long had the people been ruled by the power of science. Now they would have their freedom, even if it meant plunging into a new age of barbarism... even if it meant destroying every man who threatened their ignorance with his knowledge.

John Wilson was a scientist, a great one. Only yesterday he had been famous, admired, secure. Now he was a hated enemy of society, a man on the run in a primitive murderous world. And his brilliant intellect was at once his inescapable mark of fatal guilt and his one slim desperate chance for survival...

Condition: Binding - very good, slight edgewear, slight rubbing, light front and rear cover hinge creases along the spine, crease across the lower front corner, no spine reading creases. Dust jacket - none, as issued.

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