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A Fearsome Riddle
Published by Bowen-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1901
Seller: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Association Member: ABAA ILAB SNEAB
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
First Edition
Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good Condition. Virginia Keep (illustrator). First Edition. Slight but persistent dampstain along top edge, a little rubbing to boards. Attractive illustrations. An epistolary mad scientist time distortion novel. Size: Octavo (8vo). Illustrator: Virginia Keep. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 049564.
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A FEARSOME RIDDLE .
Published by The Bowen-Merrill Company Publishers, Indianapolis, 1901
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Association Member: ILAB
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-192 [193-206: ads], four inserted plates with illustrations by Virginia Keep, title page printed in orange and black, original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, rear panel stamped in blind, t.e.g. First edition. Epistolary novella about a mad scientist/mathematician who experiments on himself with drugs and sleep deprivation in effort to control or distort time. Of interest also for its detailed and rounded portrait of the black servant Blanchard. ". metaphysical speculations on time . a literate, intelligent, thought-provoking work." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years, 654. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 277. Bleiler (1978), p. 68. Reginald 04721. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 E-81. Several small adhesions on front free endpaper where a slip of paper was removed, else a bright, fine copy. (#90386).
