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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Mild foxing to text block, spine a little faded. Otherwise a good, clean, tight copy.
Published by Benman's, 1927
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Condition: Fair. 1927. No Edition Remarks. 253 pages. No dust jacket. Red paper covered boards. Binding remains firm. Pages have medium tanning and light foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.
Published by Greening & Co., London, 1910
Seller: Richard Beaton, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original steel-blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Undated signature on front pastedown, foxing spots, otherwise a clean, bright, tight copy: very good. Mabel Knowles wrote numerous juvenile titles in the first half of the twentieth century under the pseudonym May Wynne, but had started her authorial career writing adult romances using the more improbable name Lester Lurgan. Bohemian Blood is a romance concerned with gipsies and exchanged babies. Book.
Published by BENMAN'S, LONDON, 1927
Seller: Happyfish Books, Meopham, KENT, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. THE BOARDS ARE RUBBED AND FADED. THERE ARE STAINS TO THE FRONT BOARD. THERE ARE SOME MARKS TO THE PAGE EDGES. THE PAGES ARE HEAVILY YELLOWED. THE BINDING IS TIGHT. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.
Published by The Shoe Lane Publishing: London., 1927
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
7 x 4.25, cloth-like boards, 254 pp, a heavily worn copy with uneven spine sunning, printed on browned pulp paper, in a poor incomplete dust jacket. Pseud of Mabel Winifred Knowles.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. PhotoPlay Edition. A light romance about a visitor with superhuman powers from Mars. Based on a popular play by Ganthony and novelized by Lurgan. Play was first produced in 1899 and published in 1900. The first edition in novel form came out in 1912. This is the undated photoplay edition. It comes with 11 photographs of the cinematograph version of the play. This copy is VG-, it has a damp stain on back panel, which only shows up on the edges of the photographic plates internally. Otherwise mostly clean internally. Red boards with flowery gilt. An uncommon book. Provenance - From the Gary Munson Collection ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Published by Greening & Co., Ltd., London, 1912
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. A Message from Mars by Lester Lurgan First British Sci-Fi Film A copy with hinges starting but intact. Three-quarter-inch tear to lower spine at front joint. Moderate wear to spine edges and corners. Tanning and rubbing to spine. Offset tanning to endpapers. Owner's name to front free endpaper. Title page dated 1912. March 1912, title page verso. Black cloth with reddish-orange lettering; fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed; blind-stamped publisher's monogram to rear panel. 288 pp. A play issued as a book in 1912 credited to Lester Lurgan (aka Mabel Knowles) and Richard Ganthony. The play was the basis for the Silent film of the same name. The film is said to be the first British Science Fiction film. BOOK.
Hardcover. Condition: Good+ to Very Good-. Second edition; photoplay. Red cloth lettered and decorated in blind on front and bronze on spine, with 11 B&W plates. Worn at corners with tears at spine ends; many erasures ffep; name in pencil on ffep; marks and erasures on rear endpages; a couple of minor internal stains and tears.
Published by Greening & Co., London, 1912
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi [7] 8-288, original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange, publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel. First edition. Novelization of a play by Richard Ganthony, first performed in 1899, about a visitor with superhuman powers from Mars. A film based on the play was released in 1913. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 144. Locke, Voyages in Space (2011) V447. Bleiler (1978), p. 127. Reginald 05755. Some soiling and mild stains to cloth, some scattered foxing to endpapers and text block early and late, a few inked notes on the rear free endpaper, a very good copy. (#137475).