Aspeto (2 results)
Published by Drane's, London 1924
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Robert Eldridge, Bookseller, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Robert Eldridge, Bookseller
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Fine
US$ 150.00
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Hardback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Aspeto, M. The Misbound Volumes: A Story of Incredibilities, With a Very Good Moral. London: Drane's, n.d., [1924]. First edition, probable later cheaper issue (a first issue noted by Locke [see below] came with gilt lettering). Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-301 [302-304: blank] [note:…last leaf used as rear paste-down]. Original light green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. Illustrated with music for a song at the frontispiece. A bit of mild dust soiling to the cloth, but essentially a fine copy of this scarce book. #280. $150. Satirical romance about other dimensions, a kind of fantasia on popular notions about Einstein's writings on relativity. "An oddball vanity science fiction novel. E. F. Bleiler, in [the introduction to] the 1978 Checklist, writes: 'There are time disruptions, where time is sliced up erratically, as in Aspeto's Misbound Volumes .'" -- Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 24. Bleiler (1978), p. 11. Illustrated with music for a song at the frontispiece. (illustrator).
Published by Drane's 1924
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United KingdomCotswold Internet Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used
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Undated & with no edition stated - probably 1st edition 1924, or early reprint. Pale leaf-green cloth with black lettering & rules. Page fore-edge foxed; binding tight; spine a little faded Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket).
