Fearsome Riddle by Max Ehrmann (2 results)
More imagesPublished by Bowen-Merrill, Indianapolis 1901
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.Pazzo Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
US$ 100.00
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Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good Condition. 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. C…ategory: Fiction; Inventory No: 049564. Virginia Keep (illustrator).
Published by The Bowen-Merrill Company Publishers, Indianapolis 1901
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller4-star sellerOctavo, 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 himse…lf 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).
