This is the final typescript heavily deleted and revised by the author and editor and marked for the printer of the Doubleday and Company Inc. first edition. In the course of editing Doubleday reduced the author's final typescript by a number of pages. These were apparently removed when the typescripts were sent to the printer for setting and then not restored when it was returned to the author's agent.

The volume includes a carbon typescript of 3 Tentative Blurb Projects offering three different versions of a dust-wrapper blurb for the book by John Wyndham. There are also twelve suggestions for illustrations for the Day of the Triffids

11pp of proofs and dummies for the preliminary pages are also included.