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Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
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Condition: Used
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Octavo, pp. [i-viii] ix [x] 11-282, publisher's blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, fore-edge rough trimmed, bottom edge untrimmed. Third edition, second issue. An early reissue of the author's first SF novel (Philip Wellby 1906) bound to match its sequel, THROUGH THE SUN IN AN AIRSHIP, published in 1909. "Science fiction story set in the very near future in which a spacecraft voyages (after a brief look at some planets in the solar system) in interstellar space. It finds the remains of a dead, advanced civilization on a planet wandering in space, visits Sirius . before . returning to the solar system. There it removes an asteroid from its orbit and places it in orbit round the earth as a second moon, where its tidal action causes disasters." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 152. "Imaginative (if unscientific) as fiction . Perhaps a source for C. S. Lewis's Perelandra series." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1452. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-717. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 538. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 32. Locke, Voyages in Space (2011) V463. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, pp. 133-34. Bleiler (1978), p. 135. Reginald 09798. Spine panel just a bit sunned, else a fine copy. (#174241). …
Seller Inventory # 174241
Bibliographic details
- Title
- THE STOLEN PLANET
- Author
- Mastin, John
- Publisher
- Charles Griffin & Company, London
- Publication year
- 1909
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller catalogs
- Edwardian Fiction, Tale of the Future, Utopian Literature
Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
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