Large gift inscription to front free endpaper, a little light foxing to extremities; jacket slightly darkened, very slight loss to head of spine, o/w VG.
Jacket artwork by Roy Sanford.
£275
London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1951.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original light grey boards. Dust-jacket, priced 12s6d.
More famously known as The Martian Chronicles, but with some varying content from the first US edition.
Out of stock
Large gift inscription to front free endpaper, a little light foxing to extremities; jacket slightly darkened, very slight loss to head of spine, o/w VG.
Jacket artwork by Roy Sanford.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
First edition, first issue binding.
London. Charles Griffin & Co, [1909]
Early Sci-Fi with a fin de siècle perspective on interplanetary voyaging across the solar system. A companion volume to his The Stolen Planet novel. In Bleiler.
Modern Literature
Stories of Several Worlds. First edition, Heinemann, 1938.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Ward Lock, 1935
First edition. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket price clipped. Three digits at base of spine indicates this is an early reprint.
Hubin listed title with strong sci-fi overtones in which an Oriental cadre of secret masters aspire to immortality through imbibing an elixir of unknown provenance, and by using advanced technology to preserve themselves. They threaten the world, but are defeated in the end (Blieler p61, the only title by this author listed).