Beller, Isi — Sacred Fire

New York, Arcade Publishing, 1994. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Stated First American Edition, from the original French edition of 1990. Rekindles some of the fears of HIV and AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s, and nods in the direction of George Herbert's The White Plague of 1981. From the publisher blurb, "When Spermatic Fever, a disease more deadly than AIDS, reaches epidemic proportions, the government establishes dictatorial controls in order to stop the plague." 390 pp. including a list of abbreviations.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,