Author: SLEE, Richard & Cornelia Atwood PRATT.
Title: Dr. Berkeley's Discovery.
Description: NY, Putnams 1899. Octavo publisher's illustrated cloth blocked in gilt, black and white. Minor signs of use; rather good. ¶ Only edition, I believe, of this sci-fi murder mystery thriller. The single minded American scientist somehow wins a gorgeous young French wife and still can't stay away from the lab. He is begged to put his earth shattering new discovery to work in solving a brutal murder and discovers that the piece of brain he has grafted into an ape, cultured, sliced up and is recovering images from the memory cells is his wife's.
Keywords: literature fiction thriller sci-fi mystery c19th America
Title: Dr. Berkeley's Discovery.
Description: NY, Putnams 1899. Octavo publisher's illustrated cloth blocked in gilt, black and white. Minor signs of use; rather good. ¶ Only edition, I believe, of this sci-fi murder mystery thriller. The single minded American scientist somehow wins a gorgeous young French wife and still can't stay away from the lab. He is begged to put his earth shattering new discovery to work in solving a brutal murder and discovers that the piece of brain he has grafted into an ape, cultured, sliced up and is recovering images from the memory cells is his wife's.
Keywords: literature fiction thriller sci-fi mystery c19th America
Price: AUD 385.00 = appr. US$ 266.37 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 10998
- Book number: 10998