F Wright Moxley (14 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 221 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.56 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Condition: Good. Cover shows minor wear, rubbing, tanning, loss on the spine ends. Pages tanned and clean.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 4to soft cover volume in blue pictorial wraps. Spine tight and solid wraps a little toned with minor edge wear.End papers good unmarked. 409 pages tight and very clean.

First Edition. RED SNOW, Simon and Schuster, 1930, first edition, vg in stiff color pictorial wraps with some light wear. This novel details a hundred year period between the birth of the last human and the last remaining human alive; "the years of horror, madness, grim humor, a feverish whirlpool of fanaticism, pogroms, massacres, laboratory near miracles, race war, orgiastic paganism and sex conflict.".

VERY GOOD+ IN STIFF PAPER WRAPS. THE INNER SANCTUM NOVELS BLUE AND WHITE PRINTED PAPER COVERED STIFF PAPER WRAPS WITH BLUE ENDPAPERS, AND TOP EDGE STAINED BLUE. SOME MODERATE WEAR TO THE SPINE EDGES, SMALL CHIP AT THE TOP FRONT FORE-EDGE CORNER, AND LIGHT DUST-SOIL. A VERY NICE CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY OF THIS FRAGILE CHEAPLY MADE BOOK. FIRST EDITION. Binding is PAPERBACK.

Octavo, pp. i-ii [1-8] 1-409 [410: blank] [411: "A Note About the Author"] [412-414: blank], stiff pictorial paper wrappers, blue endpapers, top edge stained blue. First edition. Mankind faces extinction due to a mysterious red snow that sterilized women. "The end of the human race, told with savage gusto." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1203. One of the few works of speculative fiction "from Capek's generation that compares favorably with anything by the Czech master. Its grand terminal event is the instant sterilization of the human race by a red snow that falls for ninety seconds all over the planet on August 17, 1935 . The last man, Phaeton Andrews, dies on Easter in A.D. 2027, after a lightning bolt has killed all his cronies. Or does he die? According to a rabbit who saw everything, a golden chariot with magnificent horses descended to Earth, a being -- not human -- gave Phaeton the reins, and the two of them rode, laughing heartily, up into the sky. The events of Greek mythology are adroitly reversed." - Wagar, Terminal Visions: The Literature of Last Things (1982), pp. 171-2. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 2-82. Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, pp. 174-75. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 60. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, 162. Bleiler (1978), p. 144. Reginald 10478. An early volume in The Inner Sanctum Novels series, an experiment leading toward the reintroduction of the paperback. Wrappers rubbed at edges and a bit age-darkened, a very good copy. A nice copy of a fragile book that does not age gracefully. (#174550).

Octavo, pp. i-ii [1-8] 1-409 [410: blank] [411: "A Note About the Author"] [412-414: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], stiff pictorial paper wrappers, blue endpapers, top edge stained blue. First edition. Mankind faces extinction due to a mysterious red snow that sterilized women. "The end of the human race, told with savage gusto." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1203. One of the few works of speculative fiction "from Capek's generation that compares favorably with anything by the Czech master. Its grand terminal event is the instant sterilization of the human race by a red snow that falls for ninety seconds all over the planet on August 17, 1935 . The last man, Phaeton Andrews, dies on Easter in A.D. 2027, after a lightning bolt has killed all his cronies. Or does he die? According to a rabbit who saw everything, a golden chariot with magnificent horses descended to Earth, a being -- not human -- gave Phaeton the reins, and the two of them rode, laughing heartily, up into the sky. The events of Greek mythology are adroitly reversed." - Wagar, Terminal Visions: The Literature of Last Things (1982), pp. 171-2. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 2-82. Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, pp. 174-75. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 60. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, 162. Bleiler (1978), p. 144. Reginald 10478. An early volume in The Inner Sanctum Novels series, an experiment leading toward the reintroduction of the paperback. Wrappers rubbed at edges and a bit age-darkened, still a near fine copy. A nice copy of a fragile book that does not age gracefully. (#8749).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of Frank Wright Moxley science fiction novel in which humanity faces extinction due to the mass sterilization of women. The first edition of this work, first printing.The novel takes place in a world in which mankind faces extinction due to a mysterious red snow that sterilized all women. Complete sterility took place in 1935, and the societal breakdown that ensued is detailed.An early volume in 'The Inner Sanctum Novels' series, an experiment leading toward the reintroduction of the paperback. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Back strip age toned, with rubbing to back strip tail and joints. Minor chipping to back strip head and tail. Light handling marks to rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good. book.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. The very scarce first edition of F. Wright Moxley's 1934 novel about murder in suburban America. The first edition, first printing of this very scarce work. A 1934 New York Times review upon the publication of this work identified that upon completing the novel, 'the reader emerges blinking and a trifle dizzy, with a feeling that he has just come out, if not precisely from a lunatic asylum, at least from some place reserved for the neurotic and the generally unbalanced'.From Americanlawyer and author Frank Wright Moxley, best known for his 1930 science fiction novel 'Red Snow'.A novel about murder and suburban life. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Back strip a touch age toned, otherwise externally excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Near Fine. book.

Wraps. Condition: very good. First edition. Pictorial stiff wrappers. 409pp. There is a 1" x 1/2" piece rubbed on front cover. The Inner Sanctum Novels. Author's 1st book.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible: Good. Part of dust jacket glued inside. Corners rubbed. Benson's stamped inside several places. Pages yellowing with age. 0.0.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. A very smart, first UK edition of this vanishingly scarce science-fiction novel by Frank Wright Moxley. First UK edition, published the year following the US edition. Scarce to see the first UK edition.Bound in the publisher's original cloth. Lacking the original dust wrapper.Written by US author and lawyer Frank Wright Moxley, as part of the Inner Sanctum Novels series, published by Simon and Schuster at this time. 'Red Snow' tells the intriguing and futuristic story of the hundred year period between the birth of the last human and the last remaining human alive. This predicament follows a worldwide disaster which caused complete sterility in 1935, and the societal breakdown that ensued. In the publisher's cloth binding. Externally, excellent, with light bumping to the extremities and spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Stanley Salter is a man haunted by a stain that lay across his life and he solved it according to his own lights. And if his solution included murder, neither did he flinch from that. Fine in very good dustjacket. A really nice copy of this psychological mystery novel and very scarce in dustjacket.

First Edition. RED SNOW, Jarrolds, (1931), first English edition, a vg copy in g/vg pictorial dust-wrapper with some wear and tear and chipping, the latter mostly to the head and heel of the somewhat tanned dust-wrapper spine. Much, much scarcer than it's earlier American edition counterpart and downright rare in dust-wrapper. This novel details a hundred year period between the birth of the last human and the last remaining human alive; "the years of horror, madness, grim humor, a feverish whirlpool of fanaticism, pogroms, massacres, laboratory near miracles, race war, orgiastic paganism and sex conflict." Whew--- From the library of Forrest Ackerman.