Molesworth's Guide to the Atomic Age

The Vanguard Press: The Vanguard Press, 1956. First Edition. Black boards with silver stamping; salmon red pictorial DJ; 104 pages; illustrations; 21 x 15 cm A well-traveled copy in very good (-) condition with bumping to corners and slightly soiled boards; DJ in good (+) condition with some sunning, light chipping and manageable tears, in archival mylar. Hardcover.

From the title page: "A guide to survival in the 20th Century for felow pupils, their doting maters, pompous paters and any others who are interested". An offbeat combination of inventive and off-the-wall prose, dialogues, mock signage and some wild illustrations by Searle and a unique "futuristic" language from Willans. A historical document of technological anxieties transmuted through humor and cartoons.