World Below by Fowler Wright, Signed (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. LIMITED AUTOGRAPHED EDITION, Shasta Publishers, 1949. Cover and spine of dust jacket are in Good condition, but back of DJ has suffered some significant loss and chipping, mainly in its bottom half. Book boards show some modest signs of handling and dustiness/dirtyness but are in essentially good shape. Binding is tight and pages/textblock are unmarked. Signee on back of front loose endpaper. A solid copy. Will pack carefully. Signed By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Limited Edition. Limited, autographed edition, part of Shasta's Library of Classics series. A Near Fine copy in a Good dust jacket. Some fading at the covers' upper edges. Mild tanning to the pages. The dust jacket has rubs to its corners. Frays and chips along the head and heel of the jacket's spine. Rubs to the folds. The front panel has a chip at its upper left edge and rubs to its upper edge. Tanning to the rear panel. This is one of 500 copies signed by Wright. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Shasta Publishers, Chicago, IL, 1949. Original blue-green cloth Hardcover, red print on spine, no DJ, viii +344 pp. This is one of 500 limited autographed editions SIGNED by Wright. Introduction by Everett F. Bleiler. Outstanding novel in which a man is sent into the future to find humanity split into two highly differing species, the Amphibians and the Dwellers. Dante's Inferno is a major influence. The spine is faded, a few brownish stains on right text block edge; my name-stamp on front pastedown and top text block edge. Overall, a very good, tight, square copy; interior unmarked. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. Octavo, cloth. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is one of 500 signed by Wright. New introduction by Everett F. Bleiler. A superior novel in which Wright explores human evolution based on degeneration of the race due primarily to continual destruction of past civilizations through the misuse of scientific discoveries. Comprises "The Amphibians," first published in book form in 1925, and its sequel, "The World Below," first published here. A third book was planned but never written. The story is "set in the far future, when humans are extinct and forgotten. the time traveling protagonist accidentally precipitates a crisis in the affairs of a race of telepathic Amphibians who coexist with the giant humanoid Dwellers. the first part [is] an imaginative tour de force." - Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 2-128. THE AMPHIBIANS is "a work comparable in its scope only to [Wells's ] THE TIME MACHINE and [Hodgson's] THE NIGHT LAND." - Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, pp. 183-85. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-72; (1981) 2-128; (1987) 2-144; (1995) 2-154; and (2004) II-1293. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2437. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 833. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 58. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 150. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 235. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 1217. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 188. Survey of Science Fiction Literature V, pp. 2497-2500. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 213. Reginald 15670]. A nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with chips and loss to the upper front panel, closed tears at upper left front corner and lower front panel, light shelf wear to spine ends. (31944).

THE WORLD BELOW, Shasta Publishers, 1949, some soiling to the covers, upper fore edge corner of half-title clipped, else a near vg copy. 1/500 copies SIGNED by the author. From the library of a well known multi HUGO winning publisher.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Page edges show some browning and light soil marks, small stain to top edge. Pages also have some very light age browning. Front endpage has name of original owner. Light edge/corner wear present on book. Jacket has shallow chipping and some tears along edges/spine. Rear jacket is browned from age also. Jacket now enclosed in protective sleeve to prevent further wear. Overall a clean copy, inside and out. Solid, tight binding. Great find for the lover of classic sci-fi!

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Introduction by Everett F. Bleiler. Limited Autograph Edition signed by Wright. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.50). Teal cloth with red ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's stamps inside the front board and on the front endpaper, clean internally. Wright's time travel novel about a modern man who jumps forward half-a-million years to a barbarous alien civilization. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Limited edition hardcover signed by Wright to the ffep verso. Block edge slightly toned else tight and square. The DJ in mylar is slightly toned to spine and flap edges, hint of edgewear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 344 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardback. Condition: G++. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 2nd Impression. Cocked. Signed by Author on front endpaper. Owners name on front pastedown (Richard J. Hooton). Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SF novel. SIGNED on the rear front endpaper which is printed on reverse "SIGNED Limited Edition". Near Fine; dusty page tops; in VG jacket; folds on spine, front and back panels. Signed by Author(s).

hardback, 8vo, 314pp, edges slightly browned, text clean and sound, signed by the author on endpaper, no further inscriptions, red cloth, Very Good condition, in frayed and creased dustwrapper.

8vo. viii, 344 pp. Blue-green publisher's cloth, red lettering on spine, w/ d.j. cover design by Sidney Boss (slight age toning, very minor shelfwear to fore-edges), NF/NF copy, signed by author on verso of limitation page. First Shasta edition, signed by the author, of the famed science fiction novel originally published separately as "The Amphibians" by Merton Press in 1925, featuring a Time Traveler hurtling 500,000 years forward through time, influenced both by H.G. Wells "Time Machine," and Dante's "Inferno.".

1 vols. 8vo. Limited edition, signed by the author. Limited edition, signed by the author. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue-green cloth, some fading and rubbing, some marginal browning of text, ownership signature on endpaper. Good+ copy. Signed.

Hard Cover. Second Impression, SIGNED by the Author. Octavo, pp. vi, 314. Publishers' scarlet cloth with black titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Spine tips rubbed; corners bruised, with minor loss to cloth near upper front corner. Author's signature without dedication to front free endpaper; contents clean and crisp. Jacket toned and creased, with 4 cm tear to front fold, and reinforced to verso with printed paper. A very good copy in good jacket. Time-travel novel set in an alien future world. Scarce, especially so in the fragile 1929 dust-jacket. Tuck p. 470.