THE DAY NEW YORK WENT DRY
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, Inc. / Gold Medal Books, 1964. First Edition. Item #9066
First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm); original pictorial card wrappers; yellow edge-staining; [4],5-160pp. Faint vertical crease to spine and left edge of front wrapper, mild wear, with an old, shallow tide-mark affecting lower text edge on several terminal leaves; Very Good.
A catastrophe novel set in the 1960s, in which New York's water supply has gone dry. "Don't wash your sidewalk. Don't wash your car. In fact, don't wash yourself. Why not? It's the law. Take a bath, and you go to court. Take a shower, and you go to jail. Death Valley? Guantanamo? No. New York City. Three years from now when the final water shortage has begun to turn the greatest city in the world into a concrete wasteland" (from rear wrapper). 9066.
Price: $35.00