Austin's Antiquarian Books: Sci-Fi
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The Mystery Men of Mars, Adventures in the Unknown
New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1933. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; vii, (i), 216; color illustrated endpapers illustrated by A. C. Valentine and a color frontispiece uncredited; blue cloth lettered in black, top edge stained red; spine faded, edge wear but a solid copy. Great fantasy from simpler times. Good + .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 19301
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 20.25 | JP¥ 3880]
Catalogue: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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Zarlah the Martian
New York, R. F. Fenno & Co, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-194; lacks inserted frontispiece; title leaf is a cancel tipped in on a stub; title page is printed in red and black, original gilt lettered red cloth; Spine is a bit faded, the book block is sound and tight; It appears to the eye that there never was an inserted frontispiece as called for. Bookseller's tag at rear from "Sherwood's Bookstore, New York City"; Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 956. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 372. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 99. Locke, Voyages in Space 94. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 473. Good + .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 19300
USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 70 | £UK 60.25 | JP¥ 11640]
Catalogue: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
To Mars Via the Moon, an Astronomical Story
Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Co, 1911. First American Edition, English Sheets. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 327, (i); sixteen plates and maps including the frontispiece; gilt decorated and lettered blue cloth; This copy lacks one plate "Map #5, p224". "A science fiction story intended for the younger reader and trying to give within its framework up-to-date information on the moon and Mars. The voyage is carried out by spacecraft, the civilization of humanoid Martians encountered is scientifically and socially superior to ours, and the planet is stiff with canals." - Locke, Voyages in Space 212. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-176 and (1981) 1-182. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2382. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 812. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 40. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 209. Very good .
Austin's Antiquarian BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 19307
USD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 93.25 | £UK 80.25 | JP¥ 15519]
Catalogue: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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