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Author:	John Wyndham
Title:	The Day Of The Triffids
Publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd
Country:	UK
Date:	1954
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Cat#:	993
Total Editions:	5
First Published:	1951
Rating:	8.5 Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own, 1 Wants
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'A' format 272pp First published in Penguin Books 1954. Reprinted 1956,1958,1959,1960,1961. Penguin 993.

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John Wyndham - Revolt Of The Triffids - Popular Library - Paperback - USA (1952)

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Magic Marmalade 25th Feb 2023		Is it fair to call this the prototype zombie story? The central plot revolves around the humans more, with the Triffids a background presence ambling around menacingly. Great book though!



ppint. ● 17th Oct 2019		images of the various developments of the cover design and the spot-coloured foremost triffid in harry griffiths' expanded cover art would i think be found entertaining by (at least some) bookcatters.° ° - if any bookcatter out there can oblige. . . - ?



ppint. ● 17th Oct 2019		cover art b+w decoration by john griffiths cover price 2/- rises to 2/6 on 1956, '58, '59, '60, '61, to 3/6 on '62, '63, '63(2nd), '64, '65, '66 printings 272pp, including titles, indica etc. cover redesign with/by 1962 7th printing has narrow vertical orange border panels, and griffiths' cover art greatly expanded and elaborated, triffids lines in green with foreground (original, reversed?) triffid spot coloured orange, top turrets of the white tower line-drawn in black above triffid crowd... cat# 993 cover price 3'6 272pp. including titles, indica etc. cover redesign with 1963 8th & 9th through 1965 11th printing removes orange bar to cover chief, retains (re-expanded to fill ⅔ front cover) cover art by john griffiths (r.h. triffid formerly overlapping rh cover bar is no longer partly orange) cat# 993 cover price 3'6 272pp. including titles, indica etc. 1966 12th printing (sight/report of cover art not yet noticed, prob'ly as above 11th printing) cat# 993 cover price 3'6 272pp. including titles, indica etc. the 1968 13th printing has new cover art by harry willock, cover price 4/-, south africa R0.60, australia 70c, new zealand 55c - definitely time for a second bookcat "itriffidem", though cat# 993 is initially retained (until introduction of the isbn, 014-000993-0, which incorporates it). penguin books managed at least 57 printings of their p/b of "the day of the triffids", not counting "b-format", nor penguin modern classics editions, nor the xxxxian 1961 horwitz H993 p/b edition, which seems to use the same penguin books setting - though it bears its very own xxxxian view of the day on its cover. aka "revolt of the triffids" (merkin mmpb 1952), q.v.

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