The Wyndham Collection

This set collects three mid-century science-fiction novels by John Wyndham. The Day of the Triffids, first published in 1951, follows a blinded England after a meteor shower, while walking poisonous plants break farms and cities. The Chrysalids, first published in 1955, is set in a Labrador community that hunts genetic deviation after an old nuclear catastrophe. The Midwich Cuckoos, first published in 1957, concerns a village whose women bear a generation of identical, telepathic children. Each book is a complete novel of ordinary English or colonial life meeting a biological emergency. The set is not a single continuous story.

Quarter-bound in dark blue cloth with colour picture printed paper covers. Plain colour endpapers that match cover colour theme. Pale green slipcase front blocked with titles and an image in black and metallic magenta, lined with pink paper.