| Description: |
| Title: |
Mutant
59:
The
Plastic
Eaters |
| Author: |
Kit
Pedler
and
Gerry
Davis |
Publishing
Details: |
Viking
Press,
New
York
(c)
1972--no
other
dates
listed |
| Cover
Type: |
Hardcover
with
dust
jacket |
| Description: |
On
offer
is
this
book,
as
shown
in
the
photo.
This
first-edition
book
has
blue
cover
boards
with
blue
lettering
and
illustrations.
The
book
has
deckled
page
edges.
The
dust
jacket
flap
states:
A
life-sized
robot
gone
berserk
in
a
Christmas
toy
display,
a
computerized
traffic
system
hopelessly
snarled,
an
Apollo
capsule
lost
in
space,
a
jet
plane
crashing
in
the
middle
of
a
crowded
supermarket,
a
nuclear
sub
missing
with
all
hands
on
board,
the
Underground
exploding
in
an
inferno
of
gas
and
flame,
all
plastic
substances
swiftly
dissolving
into
rot,
its
consuming
foam
laying
waste
the
entire
center
of
London--what
has
gone
wrong?
Even
as
that
question
is
answered
in
this
brilliant
and
riveting
novel,
certain
hair-raising
doubts
about
our
present
bio-ecological
attitudes
are
forever
planted
in
our
minds.
At
the
same
time
we
are
drawn
into
the
lives
of
some
fellow
human
beings
under
stress:
Luke
Gerrard
and
Anne
Kramer
of
the
Kramer
Consultancy,
a
group
of
expert
research
scientists
organized
to
anticipate
and
produce
solutions
to
problems
in
industry
and
science.
Under
the
leadership
of
Arnold
Kramer,
an
analytical
genius
with
ferocious
creative
ability
and
overdeveloped
commercial
zeal,
they
have
given
the
world
a
very
profitable
substance
called
Degron,
used
in
widely
hailed
self-destructing
plastic
containers.
As
Luke
and
Anne
flee
disaster
in
the
fiery
subway
tunnels
and
as
Arnold
Kramer
takes
the
last
flight
out
of
London
to
New
York,
it
becomes
evident
that
the
Degron
may
be
a
modern
Trojan
Horse,
and
the
search
for
the
cause
of
plastic
dissolution
becomes
indeed
a
race
against
doom.
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| Condition: |
Overall
condition--pages,
excellent;
cover,
excellent;
dust
jacket,
good:
- no
writing
- a
few
tiny
corner
bends
(pages
are
crisp)
- no
tears
- light
yellowing
- no
foxing
- binding
is
intact
- cover
wear
includes minor
edge
wear
- dust
jacket
wear
includes
rubbing;
some
open
tears
at the
top
and
bottom
of
the
spine
and
edges; and
some
bends/creases
along
the
edges.
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