Author: Chalmers Kearney
Title: Erone
Description: Guildford , Biddles Ltd. 1943 . First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition of this vanishingly scarce utopian science-fiction novel by Australian author and inventor, Chalmers Kearney. First edition, signed by the author to the title page.Very scarce work. Bound in the publisher's original cloth, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Written by Australian inventor, engineer and author, Elfric Wells Chalmers Kearney, whose work was largely focused on railway engineering, being the managing director of the Kearney Railway Construction Company. Kearney actively promoted monorail technology, giving lectures and writing a book on the subject. 'Erone' was his only novel, with its aim being to popularise the notion of monorail transport. This novel presents a love story surrounded by wonderous cities of the future, being a paradise for engineers and architects, while showing the population an image of a tremendous and inspiring times to come.Illustrated with a bright frontispiece, in colour. Collated, complete. Bound in the publisher's original cloth, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, lovely, with light shelf wear only. Light handling marks to endpapers. Dust wrapper is sound, with chipping and the odd closed tear to the extremities, with slight loss to the head and tail of the spine. Tear to rear flyleaf. Light handling marks to the rear wrap, with spotting to the reverse. Internally, firmly bound with bright, clean pages. Signed by the author to the title page. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Good Only.

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