Author: Mee, Huan [Mansfield?]; Wilson, Oscar (Illus.)
Title: Weaving the Web
Description: London, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1902. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 336. Small 8vo. Bound in original decorated blue cloth with gilt lettering. Oscar Wilson illustrations present as called-for. Rubbing to extremities, light soiling to rear board, endpapers clean, front hinge a bit weak. Binding is cracking at the placement of the second plate, contents clean. Overall, good+. No dust jacket. Bleiler notes in Science Fiction: The Early Years (pp. 490-491) that the name 'Huan Me' is 'probably a pseudonym for a British author, perhaps to be read 'you and me'. A fairly frequent contributor of sensational fiction to the British variety magazines around the turn of the century'. The pseudonym 'Huan Me' is not listed in any of the standard reference works on pseudonyms, viz. Atkinson, 'Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms'; Sharp, 'Pseudonyms and Personal Nicknames'; Halkett and Laing, 'A Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain'. This title not in Bleiler, although referenced in Hubin (p. 283). It is a scarce title; OCLC lists only one copy in an American library (N.Y. Univ.). Five other novels have been attributed to this author. Ill.: Wilson, Oscar.

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