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Gloag (John) Manna, first edition, 1940; and another by this son (2)

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Gloag (John) Manna, first edition, 1940; and another by this son (2)

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NO RESERVE Gloag (John) Manna, light spotting to endpapers, jacket with 7/6 price sticker to spine, light toning to spine, light creasing to head, 1940 § Gloag (Julian) Our Mother's House, signed presentations inscription from the author to John Baxter, American Library in Paris invitation loosely inserted, jacket with light rubbing and creasing to head and foot, 1963, first editions, original boards, dust-jackets, near-fine copies generally, 8vo (2)

⁂ John Gloag was a science fiction writer and friend of Olaf Stapledon. Manna, in which a journalist uncovers a plan to create a fungus to cure world hunger, is notable for its prediction of an imminent large-scale European war.