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Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1933, 1934 First Edition, First Printings: Near fine, clean crisp books, both with a new facsimile dust jackets. "The famous catastophe novels that were a huge commercial success with over 1/2 million copies sold. When Worlds Collide was made into a film in 1951 which won awards for special effects, and then sparked the 1950?s sci-fi boom.? These are both the rare true first editions of each of these titles and is NOT the book club edition, nor ex-library, nor later printings. The books are in near fine condition: When Worlds Collide has unfaded red cloth and blue cloth boards and light blue titles to front panel and spine. The book has sharp corners, No bumps and No edgewear. The book has a nice tight and square binding. The cloth is very clean and vibrant. The end papers and internal pages are clean with no owner names, no inscriptions, no book plates, but a few faint handling marks to the first several pages. Else the interior pages are clean, bright and flat with no creasing and no marks. Please see the many included images. After Worlds Collide has vibrant blue boards with a strong gilt emblem to the front and gilt titles to the spine. The boards have sharp corners and no edgewear. The spine has a unique sheen which may represent that it was coated with something for protection. The book has a nice tight and square binding. The cloth is very clean and vibrant. The end papers and internal pages have a bookplate, otherwise are clean with no owner names, no inscriptions. The interior pages are clean, bright and flat with no stains, no handling marks, no foxing and no creasing. A very clean book, internally appearing as unread. Please see the many included images. Both are accompanied by a brand new facsimile dust jackets of the first printings. The jackets both protects the book in addition to enhancing its shelf appeal. The two books make a very unique clean set of these titles, extremely scarce. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for other rare SciFi titles. **Please note- International Shipping is $100 via UPS.

When Worlds Collide is a 1933 science fiction novel co-written by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie. It describes the coming destruction of Earth by a rogue planet and how a select few human beings escape in a spaceship to a new world.