COUNTER-CLOCK WORLD

New York: Berkley, 1967. First Edition. Mass market paperback. Near fine. The first appearance in print, a paperback original (X1372). "The Hobart Phase has the effect of reversing entropy: bodies revive in the grave, the old grow younger, inventions are forgotten and books are unwritten. The institutions of power are the Vitariums, which sell the old people when they revive; a socio-religious movement called the FNM; and the Library, which is rumoured to illegally preserve knowledge doomed to be undiscovered. Representatives of all three institutions are waging an undeclared war over the body and soul of the new revived Anarch Peak, the former and future leader of the FNM." Mass market paperback. Original pictorial paper wrappers. Small ink chop stamp to the verso of the front panel; else a fine copy. Levack 7a. (Inventory #: 77713)