Ernest Elmore [aka John Bude] - The Steel Grubs - Selwyn & Blount, 1928, First Edition.

London, Selwyn & Blount, 1928. First edition, first impression. Hardback. A very good copy. Uncommon in the jacket. "A Dartmoor convict finds some Alien eggs, which hatch into ferrophage grubs that eat first the iron bars of his cell and then much of First Industrial Revolution England." [SFE, Clute]. Some chipping and loss to the jacket at the corners and spine tips, a little toning to the spine, a little foxing to the endpapers, and a reading lean. [12255, Hyraxia Books].