THE CHRYSALIDS

House of Grant, Canada, 1965.  Hard cover, 225 pages including Glossary and Questions for each chapter.  Very good; green cloth with white lettering on front and spine, white decoration on rear; a bit of soil on covers.  Some corner and spine end wear, light edge wear.  Binding sound.  Black marker over two stamped lines on FEP; remainder of interior clean and unmarked.  Black & white illustrations by Peter Edwards.  Post-apocalyptic novel set in the future, where society does not accept or tolerate any mutations.  The narrator, David, befriends Sophie, who has six toes.  David later discovers that he has telepathic abilities, communicates with others who have the same ability, and begins to question the community’s strict fundamentalist rules.