To Mars Via the Moon by Mark Wicks (First Edition)

Mark Wicks

Published by Seeley and Co. Limited, London, 1911

About this Item

To Mars Via the Moon by Mark Wicks (First Edition) A firm copy with minor wear to spine edges and corners. Bright gilt. Mild tanning to endpapers with minor foxing to prelims, fore edges, and last few pages. Owner's name to front free endpaper. No jacket present. Title page dated 1911. Preface and frontispiece illustration by Mark Wicks, 1910. Navy blue cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial designs. Illustrated. 328 pp. With publisher adverts laid in. Featured in Ron Miller?s ?The Conquest of Space Book Series.? This 1911 novel describes a journey to the moon and Mars in the anti-gravity spaceship Areonal. Heavily influenced by the work of Percival Lowell, the book is an accurate mirror of the popular interest in Mars at the time it was written. Seller Inventory # HCX22378-1

Bibliographic Details

Title: To Mars Via the Moon by Mark Wicks (First ...

Publisher: Seeley and Co. Limited, London

Publication Date: 1911

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Edition: First Edition.

Book Type: BOOK