The Wonderful City by Fletcher J S, First Edition (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Publishers highly decorated blue cloth decorated in silver, black and in blind. Tissue guarded frontispiece, a bright NEAR FINE copy of a handsome book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Rhind(Illustrator) (illustrator). First Edition. The Wonderful City by J. S. Fletcher (First Edition) A firm copy. Mild rubbing to spine and cover edges. Bumped corners. Minor foxing to endpapers. Handwriting to front endpapers. No jacket present. Lost Race novel. Decorative blue cloth stamped in black and gilt. Frontispiece plate and illustrated half-title plate. 185pp + [6] ads. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Rhind(Illustrator) (illustrator). First Edition. The Wonderful City by J. S. Fletcher (First Edition) A firm copy with worn edges. Neatly written school presentation inscription to pastedown for the year 1893. The owner's 1901 stamping to ffe and following blank leaf. School presentation copy. Lost Race novel. Decorative red cloth stamped black and gilt. Frontispiece plate and illustrated half-title plate, tissue-guard present but detached. 185pp + [6] ads. BOOK.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st 1894. Very good condition with no wrapper. Blue pictorial cloth with gilt titles. Green floral decorated endpapers. 185 pages. B/w frontis and title-page (with tissue guard). Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Prize plate to front pastedown. Light foxing to contents and light browning to endpapers. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Octavo, pp. [i-ii: blank] [iii-v] vi-vii [viii] [9] 10-185 [186: blank] [187-192: ads], inserted frontispiece and extra title leaf with illustrations by Rhind, original pictorial red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, publisher's monogram stamped in blind in rear panel, floral pattered endpapers. First edition. Boys' lost race adventure novel set in the American Southwest. "A geographically ignorant, weak imitation of H. Rider Haggard, stilted language and all, to which have been added dime-novel elements." Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 783. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 85. Bleiler (1978), p. 74. Reginald 05486. Small remnant of a bookplate or prize label on the front paste-down, a bright, tight, very good copy. A nice copy of an attractive book. (#170895).