THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS

Del Rey, New York, 1991, 4^th pr.  ISBN 0-345-32817-5.  MMPB, 191 pages.  Good reading copy; wraps show edge and cover wear, some creases, small splits at lower spine edges.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  ‘The night the sky broke out in mysterious green flashes, all but a few people on Earth were blinded. … Bill Masen was one of a handful who struggled to make a new – and civilized – start out of the chaos.  But blindness and madness soon became the least of Man’s problems – the triffids were moving in!  Walking plants that fed on the bodies of their human prey, they stalked the survivors, killing anyone I their path.  Bill Masen had to find a way to destroy the triffids – before the triffids could take over the world!’ (from rear wrap)