Officers’ Mess inscription to front endpaper; cloth slightly dulled at spine with mild spotting; jacket with a few minor chips but overall very good.
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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