NMLP P-042172 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Chrysalids

John Wyndham · Ballantine Books (New York) — as Re-Birth; Michael Joseph (London) — as The Chrysalids · 1955

The Michael Joseph (London) 1955 edition, titled The Chrysalids, is the first UK edition, the first appearance under the title by which the book is now known, and carries the revised/fuller text; it is black cloth, 239 pp., in the pictorial dustwrapper with cover art by Wildsmith, with the publisher's price present at the flap

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-042172 for "The Chrysalids" by John Wyndham (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-042172, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).