Sunset by Morison (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First US edition. Morison's real name was Albert Henry Ross. Bought from author's estate via daughter. Orange cloth. Octavo. 282 pages. VG copy ( some foxing to endpapers). Dustwrapper complete though substantial edge wear and some loss.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First US edition. Morison's real name was Albert Henry Ross. Bought from author's estate via daughter. Orange cloth. Octavo. 282 pages. VG copy ( some foxing to endpapers). Dustwrapper complete though substantial edge wear and some loss.

first edition. very good orange binding, pieces of the jacket glued inside.

Hardback, 12mo, 286pp. Good condition in red cloth (no dustwrapper). General wear and marks. Spine faded and cocked. Owner's name penned on front pastedown. Pages age-toned, with spotting at edges.

Condition: Very good. Jacket artwork by A.E. Taylor. (illustrator). First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6. A very good first edition of an intriguing sci-fi title with Christian apologetical overtones. Book itself in very good condition; jacket with small chip to head of spine and very minor abrasive (insect?) damage to lower panel, but overall very good. A very good first edition of an intriguing sci-fi title with Christian apologetical overtones. Book.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. (London: Faber & Faber 1932). First UK Edition. Publisher's red boards with metallic-green spine lettering. Purple top-edge. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN HIS REAL NAME. Boards really bright and clean; some foxing to both sets of end-papers and, to a lesser extent, to the page block edges. Overall, a VG++ copy inscribed by the Author on the front free end-paper in his real name: "Annie/ with much love/ from Harry". In the VERY RARE dustwrapper priced 7/6 net to the inside flap (as called for). The VG++ dustwrapper has a touch of fraying at the head of the spine and a small chip (1.7 x 0.7 cm) from the top left-hand corner of the spine/ top right-hand corner of the back panel. None of the usual fading to the spine of the dustwrapper. Superb cover art by A E Taylor. In Bleiler. This is a "Philosophical science fiction novel of communication from an older planet which discusses the postulate that life on Earth was the result of an accident, a sort of cosmic miscarriage." Scarce with these attributes. NB: the Faber first edition of this title is the "true" first edition that pre-dates its publication in the USA by Century in New York. Photographs/scans available upon request. Signed by Author.

FIRST EDITION, drawings to the text, faint spot carrying through at foot of prelims, some light handling marks, pp. 286, crown 8vo, original pink cloth, backstrip lettered in dark green with a touch of fading at tips, a few light handling marks to upper board, top edge pink, edges and endpapers lightly spotted, dustjacket with a design by A.E. Taylor, a little chipped and nicked, backstrip panel sunned, very good. 'Frank Morison' was the nom-de-plume of Albert Ross, who was presumably sick of people asking to see his wingspan. Faber had published his previous book, 'Who Moved the Stone?', an exegetical work expressing his scepticism regarding the facts of Jesus's resurrection - which T.S. Eliot in his reader's report had, despite initial reservations, commended as 'well written' and 'as absorbing as a detective story'. Dorothy L. Sayers cited it as an influence on her 'The Man Born to be King'. This is his first novel, a work of science fiction, similarly provocative, in which physicist John Byford establishes radio communication with a dying planet three light years from Earth, from which he receives the prediction of his own planet's imminent destruction. Ross, who worked as an advertising agent, was raised in Birmingham and educated at King Edward VI school in Stratford-upon-Avon, whose other old boys include William Shakespeare ('Richard II' providing one of the book's epigraphs) and this cataloguer.