Seamark [pseud. Austin J. Small] The Avenging Ray

£125

London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1930].

First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6 (second impression?).

Very good example of this early sci-fi title, described by Bleiler as ‘Cheap thrills, combined with over-writing and a low-level romance. Commercial fiction of an uncreditable sort.’ Admittedly only after he has gone to considerable length to outline the plot with a somewhat ghoulish enthusiasm. ‘Mad genius’ trope.

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