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Octavo, cloth. First separate edition. Fourth book of the five-volume Avalon reprint of DARKNESS AND DAWN, an important early American science fiction novel utilizing the catastrophe motif. The trilogy was first published as serials in CAVALIER in 1912 and 1913 and first published in book form in 1914 by Small, Maynard and Company. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-73; (1981) 1-67; (1987) 1-33; (1995) 1-33 and (2004) II-383. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 673. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 283. Lewis, Utopian Literature, pp. 58-9. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 79. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 484-87. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 79. Reginald 04904D. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#140885).