5/22/2023 0 Comments Body snatchers book![]() “To say the story was trendsetting is… an understatement-the term ‘pod people’ is today a part of the American lexicon” (Johnson, Dark Page II:58). Written under the pseudonym of Jack Finney, this third novel by Walter Braden Finney, with its “chilling tale of aliens who emerge from pods in the guise of humans,” was seen by many to be “a cold-war allegory that dramatized America’s fear of a takeover by Communists” ( New York Times). ![]() Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket.įirst edition, cloth, of one of the most famous sci-fi novels of all time, preceded only by the American edition in wrappers the same year, basis for several classic film adaptations, including the famed 1956 Don Siegel film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and the 1978 film by Philip Kaufman, in scarce original dust jacket. ![]() ![]() “WE’LL STAY AWAKE AS LONG AS WE CAN”: SCARCE FIRST CLOTH EDITION OF FINNEY’S THE BODY SNATCHERS, “A CHILLING TALE” OFTEN ADAPTED TO THE SCREENįINNEY, Jack. ![]()
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