The Doomsday Gene by John Boyd

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket: Near Fine. 1973. Weybright and Talley. 1st Edition. Signed and inscribed by author.

Inscribed to Lee from the author on the back of the front endpaper.

Cal Tech seismology student Amal Severn is part of such an experiment and an impending earthquake gives him the opportunity to make his social contribution; but the question remains whether the love of a beauteous coed can keep him from acting out his lab-created death wish.

John Boyd was the primary pen-name of Boyd Bradfield Upchurch, an American science fiction author.