The Discovery of the Dead
Upward, Allen.
Published by A. C. Fifield, London, 1910
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Upward, Allen. The Discovery of the Dead. London: A. C. Fifield, 1910. First edition. Octavo, pp. [1-11] 12-190 [191-192: publisher's ads] + 16-page publisher's catalogue dated "March, 1910" inserted at rear. Original charcoal gray pictorial cloth, front panel stamped in gold and light gray, spine panel stamped in gold, bottom edge of text block untrimmed. Remains of old bookplate affixed to front pastedown, with new owner's ink signature in its place. Aside from an odd little indentation near the bottom of the front cover, an unusually fine bright copy, with the delicate (and striking) pictorial element on the cover presenting very well. #3408. $1000. "Scientific romance utilizing occult doctrines in a novel manner. Russian savant detects and communicates with 'necromorphs,' human survivals who reveal a spiritual hierarchy in the Beyond roughly analogous to Hell, Limbo and Heaven. Ideas not original, but presentation strikingly so." -- Robert Knowlton. "Cleverly narrated." -- Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1617. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 174. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 1259. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 216. Reginald 14390. The author was fairly prolific in a variety of fields including sensational crime thrillers, espionage novels, occult magazine articles and avant-garde poetry. Seller Inventory # 3408
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Title: The Discovery of the Dead
Publisher: A. C. Fifield, London
Publication Date: 1910
Binding: Hardback
Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition.
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The Discovery of the Dead.
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Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
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FIRST EDITION, half-title faintly browned, one or two small pencil marks to margins, pp. 190, [2], 16 [Publisher's list], crown 8vo, original darkest blue cloth, backstrip and upper board lettered in gilt, the illustration to upper board stamped in white, tail edge roughtrimmed, attractive bookplate to front pastedown, very good. A superb copy of Upward's story of a German scientist, Karl Lücke, who discovers a substance called 'Necrolite', that allows contact with the dead - leading him to an Underworld where the populating 'Necromorphs' include various historical literary figures and great thinkers. In his 'Advertisement' preceding the text, Upward proposes his story as formulated to satisfy those 'who are sincerely interested in what some call spiritualism, and some call psychical research [.] I have told the story as it was told to me by my [daimon]'. The author was associated for a time with Ezra Pound, whose thought and writing he influenced; Upward was among the contributors to Pound's 'Des Imagistes' anthology (1914) - regarding his poems in this context as working within a Chinese tradition, in line with some of his earlier work. Seller Inventory # 77256
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THE DISCOVERY OF THE DEAD
Published by
A. C. Fifield, London, 1910
Used
Hardcover
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Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
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Octavo, pp. [1-11] 12-190 [191-192: ads] + 16-page publisher's catalogue dated "March, 1910" inserted at rear, original pictorial navy blue cloth, front panel stamped in gold and light gray, spine panel stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. "Scientific romance utilizing occult doctrines in a novel manner. Russian savant detects and communicates with 'necromorphs,' human survivals who reveal a spiritual hierarchy in the Beyond roughly analogous to Hell, Limbo and Heaven. Ideas not original, but presentation strikingly so." - Robert Knowlton. "Cleverly narrated." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1617. "An original tale . outstanding in content ." - Teitler, Kaleidoscope Books (1986), catalogue 59, item 136. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 174. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 1259. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 216. Bleiler (1978), p. 197. Reginald 14390. Hint of foxing to a few text pages, some loss of gilt to "THE" in title on front cover, else a bright, fine copy of an attractive book with wonderful depiction of a necromorph on front panel. (#152482). Seller Inventory # 152482
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