World Pharaohs, Signed (6 results)

Paperback. 397p., pictorial wrappers, small damp stain on bottom fore-edge corner. Signed and inscribed by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Rare. Black boards, with gilt lettering along the spine. This handsome book is 245 pages in length, with 157 black-and-white figures (and a frontispiece), and 35 color plates. This copy is in near fine condition. Signed by the author. Photographs are available. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Rare. Black boards, with gilt lettering along the spine. This handsome book is 245 pages in length, with 157 black-and-white figures (and a frontispiece), and 35 color plates. This copy is in near fine condition. Signed by the author. Photographs are available. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Mint. Foreword by T.G.H. James. 196 pages. many colour and b/w. illustrations. inscribed by the author. near mint paperback. Signed by Author(s).

Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-316 [317-320: ads], original decorated blue cloth, front panel stamped in black, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by the author on front free endpaper: "To Mr. G. E. Tandell / with the best wishes of / the begetter of these lies. / Elmer Dwiggins / Des Moines. / April 6, 1904." Victorian interplanetary novel. Second part recounts the adventures of two spacemen on Mars that are remarkably similar to those of Edgar Rice Burroughs's hero of A PRINCESS OF MARS (1912). "Among the more intelligent early interplanetary novels, unusual in its recognition of problems of parallel evolution as well as of the mechanics of space travel." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 602. See Lupoff essay in Gregg Press edition. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-351. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, p. 351. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 71. Locke, Voyages in Space (2011) V 237. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 300. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, pp. 132-33. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 76. Bleiler (1978), p.68. Reginald 04481. Some bubbling to cloth on front cover, light wear to cloth at spine ends and corner tips, small nick to cloth on outer rear joint, hairline crack along inner front hinge, endpapers foxed, a good copy. (#165832). Signed.

Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-316 [317-320: ads], original decorated blue cloth, front panel stamped in black, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Dwiggins on front free endpaper: "To T. T. Watson / with the compliments of / the 'begetter of these lies.' / Elmer Dwiggins / Buenos Aires / Feby 12, 1901." " Victorian interplanetary novel. Second part recounts the adventures of two spacemen on Mars that are remarkably similar to those of Edgar Rice Burroughs's hero of A PRINCESS OF MARS (1912). "Among the more intelligent early interplanetary novels, unusual in its recognition of problems of parallel evolution as well as of the mechanics of space travel." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 602. See Lupoff essay in Gregg Press edition. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-351. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, p. 351. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 71. Locke, Voyages in Space (2011) V 237. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 300. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, pp. 132-33. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 76. Bleiler (1978), p.68. Reginald 04481. Ink stain on front cover, endpapers foxed, a sound, good copy. (#173069). Signed.