Thoth Romance, Used (11 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Second edition stated. Second, enlarged edition with new preface, and "Appendix," which is essentially a final chapter, page 211-218. Light soil to cloth, front free end paper creased at corner, else very good. Lost race science fiction, ancient Greece and airships. A classic. No Signature.

Nice book, good plus, with clean unmarked interior, some fading of covers with wear around the edges. Slight spine roll, sturdy hinges. Subscription library bookplate on front pastedown, no other library markings at all. 24 page publisher's catalog in rear with printed date of "4/88" on last page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. iv, 171p. Contemporary quarter calf over roan boards. Gilt ruled spine with marbled end papers. One of three novels published anonymously by the noted English economist and mathematician Joseph Shield Nicholson (1850ż1927). First American Edition published the same year as the first English edition. Halkett & Laing Vol VI, p70. Hinges and headband rubbed. Some rubbing to upper corner on the rear board. p54 'dog eared' Otherwise internally a fresh clean copy of a very uncommon edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. red boards with gilt titles spine and small gilt illustration front board, light bumping to spine ends, clean condition, pen name half title page, 209pp + 24pp advertising rear of book, pages clean and overall VG condition.

Condition: Fair. 1889. Third Edition. 228 pages. No dust jacket. Russet cloth with gilt lettering. Book published anonymously. Rough-cut edges. Pages are lightly tanned with some foxing throughout. Cracks to guttering, exposing netting. Binding is firm. Both hinges loose to bottom. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Faint markings to pages, text still lgible. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping. Moderate tanning to spine and edges with some crushing to spine ends. Scuffing to edges of spine with minor fraying to corners. Dust marks to cloth with faint liquid marks to front. Gilt lettering is darkened. Book has a notable forward lean.

Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-v] vi-viii [ix] x [1] 2-228 + 24-page publisher's catalogue dated "8/88" on page 24 inserted at rear, original decorated reddish orange cloth, front panel stamped in gold and brown, spine panel stamped in gold, top and fore edges untrimmed, slate coated endpapers. Second edition, enlarged. This edition adds Nicholson's 4-page "Preface to the Second Edition," and "Appendix," pp. [211]-228, latter being "the last chapter of THOTH as originally written in 1876." The first of Nicholson's three anonymously published fantasy novels. "Lost race science fiction story set in the time of ancient Greece in which a superscientific race in the depths of Africa abducts some Grecian maidens and takes them away in an airship." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 16. "A semi-allegory of love and power, presented in a detached, almost fabular way. Essentially a descendant of Bulwer-Lytton's THE COMING RACE (1871) . One of the major science-fiction novels of the nineteenth century." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1624. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 685. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 79. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 36. Teitler and Locke, By the World Forgot (2013) 46. Bleiler (1978), p. 148. Reginald 10679. Binding leaned, cloth rubbed at spine ends, corner tips lightly worn, two tiny areas of wear to cloth along outer joint, a bit of mild soiling to cloth, a tight, internally clean, very good copy. Overall, a nice copy. The first printing of the second edition is, like the first edition, an uncommon book. An important edition of an important book. (#165799).

First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19.75cm); russet cloth, titled in gilt on spine, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in black and gilt within a double-ruled border on front cover; hunter green endpapers; [vi],[1],2-209,[1] + 24pp publisher's catalog. Inscribed by the author to his wife along the upper margin of the front endpaper, around the time of publication: "Jeanie W. Nicholson / from Shield / 15th July 1888." Touch of dust-soil and a few faint foxed spots to text edges, else internally fresh and virtually without wear; very Near Fine.The first of three "fantastic romances" by Nicholson (1850-1927), an English author and economist. An impressive lost race novel, set in the time of ancient Greece, in which "a super-scientific race in the depths of Africa abducts some Grecian maidens and takes them away in an airship" (Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, Vol.1, p.16). ".around 400 BCE, where a city in the North African desert, settled 2,000 years earlier, has benefited from the scientific advances of its ruler, Thoth the First, who remains in suspended animation; but submarines, a rigorous application of eugenics in order to develop giant and pygmy slave classes, and airships fail to save the civilization from fatal degeneration caused mainly by savage misogyny, with women kept in pens as breeders" (Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 25 November, 2024). The novel went quickly into a second edition in 1889. The First is uncommon; of the 18 copies found in OCLC, only 7 are in US institutions. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, p.38.