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The Committed Men: Available Copies

, , very good - fine, glue marks on the reverse flaps, some fold krinkles jacket only, NO BOOK

VGSF paperback reprint edition/printing (only printing 1989) with new cover art by Elson. Near Fine condition with evidence of small price sticker removal on the rear cover, otherwise As New and unread. Laid in for fun is a (folded) former library edition copy of the dust jacket to the first U.S. hardcover edition (art by John Holmes)! "Harrison's first novel, The Committed Men (1971; rev 1971), is an impressive Post-Holocaust story set in a fractured England, centring physically on the ruins of the motorways, and generating a powerful sense of entropic dismantlement." [JC] - The Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition/Internet.

Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Repaired; First Page of Front Matter Missing; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Coves, Spine Moderately Chipped; Heavy Sticker Pull to Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: 32. CONTENTS: Prologue; The Rabbit Snare; The House of Holloway Pauce; The Real-life Romances; The Cemetery; The Nature of the Catastrophe; The Adjudicators; The Attitude That Counts; The Initial Contact; The Maps He Had Once Known; The Floating Nun; The Bridge at Evening; The Celebration; The Horse of the Mutant Queen; Destination Is A State Of Mind; Epilogue. SYNOPSIS: In a bleak present-future Britain, mounting radiation levels have brought abut widespread deformity and a catastrophic collapse of society. The crazed and cancered remnants of the population are bent upon stamping out abnormality with messianic zeal. But those few who look beyond their own, doomed struggle for survival know that only a mutant version of mankind can survive in this poisoned environment. The new humanity must be preserved--whatever the cost. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

8vo: 139pp. Worn paperback. Minor spotting throughout.

Very Good to Like New. Pretty copy. First US/Doubleday printing.

Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. British and U.S. editions have textual differences. The author's first novel. ".an impressive post holocaust story set in a fractured England." - Nicholls (ed), The Science Fiction Encyclopedia, p. 275. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 3-376. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with light dust soiling to rear panel. (#62409)

New York, Doubleday, 1971. 8vo. Original red cloth, titled black to spine, with illustrated dust wrapper; pp. [viii], 183; a very good copy with some occasional foxing and a little wear to the dust wrapper. Inscribed by author to front free endpaper. First edition. A dystopian science-fiction novel about post-apocalypse britain, where roaming gangs rule supreme and mutant lizards lurk in the shadows. When a lizard is born to a human, a group of men set out to deliver the baby to its own kind. As Harrison's debut novel, this is rare find, but especialy in the dust wrapper. This copy is inscribed by the author thus: "For Phil â" Ah, those long centuries in Ankor Wat â" Mike H." The recipient is Philip Horowitz, brother of the author Anthony Horowitz, from whence Sotherans acquired this copy.