‎Science fiction‎

‎Laumer Keith‎

‎THE BEST OF KEITH LAUMER‎

‎NY: Pocket 1976. 2nd printing; #83268. Cover art by Ochagavia. Mild tanning; creasing; a little musty. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Pocket Paperback‎

书商的参考编号 : NS920 ???????? : 0671832689 9780671832681

‎UPHAM Edward.‎

‎Rameses; An Egyptian tale: With historical notes Of the Era of the Pharaohs.‎

‎Quotation from Bossuet Histoire Universelle tome ii. In three volumes. Printed for G.B. Whittaker Ave-Maria-Lane; John Upham Bath; and Charles Upham Exeter 1824. 3 Vols. Post 8vo; pp.viii341i printer’s imprint; iv321i printer’s imprint; iv328; publisher’s quarter dark green linen cream boards paper spine label; a.e. uncut. Spines repaired almost invisibly with matching cloth; paper covering of boards worn at some corners and dusty; old armorial library stamp on each title leaf but no other signs of library use; marginal stains on pp.101-104 of volume three; some foxing to Notes of volume two and to a few scattered gatherings towards the end of volume three apparently indicative of a different paper stock; otherwise and in general effect a very nice copy. From the author’s Advertisement: “It may seem objectionable to exhibit Egypt as possessing at so early a period of the world knowledge and science in certain branches of learning and art surpassing all that the moderns with the advantages of the experience and wisdom of ages can produce. The Notes contain the evidence and authority for such a representation of the wisdom of the Egyptians.The comparison of ancient historians with modern travellers has furnished the materials and groundwork of the tale.The author wished to comprise as large an extent of information respecting the rites arts and public monuments of the Egyptians as possible; and it has been his study to keep within the limits of historic evidence confirming and illustrating his details by ample notes which contain such various and important matter from the earliest historians as must interest even the general reader.†The Notes placed at the end of each volume comprise some 125pp. The result of the author’s concern with historical records is that the story is overwhelmed with descriptive detail and is not fantasy as with most Egyptian novels of the period but almost ‘lost race’ telling of marvels not obviously achievable in terms of the science of the 1820s though not intended to be science fiction. Minor science fiction elements do however occur. In volume two at p.10 for example we learn that “the lamp of wonderful workmanship burned with the amianthus which was framed by the skill of Mizraim science to last for ages unconsumed and contained a potent mixture indestructible by its perpetual flame†and at pp.123-4 in volume three it is stated that the oldest of the Egyptian records hark back to a time when the year consisted of only 360 days. Well printed apart from the few foxed gatherings on good paper by Thomas Davison at Whitefriars. Garside Raven and Schöwerling 1824: 92; not in Sadleir or Locke’s Spectra; Wolff 6925 recording a copy in pale-blue boards and labels: it is also known in similar cream boards. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : ERT120788

‎THOMAS Chauncey.‎

‎The crystal button.‎

‎Or adventures of Paul Prognosis In the forty-ninth century. By Chauncey Thomas. Edited by George Houghton. Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press Cambridge 1891. Globe 8vo; half-title not called for; blank before title-page final blank; pp.iixiv302ii; 36pp. text-paper advertisements at end; pale green buckram blocked very dark brown greenish-white and silver lettered very dark brown on front cover lettered very dark brown on spine. Slight wear to cloth at head and tail of spine; lightly rubbed area at tail of spine with loss of most of MIFFLIN in imprint; very slight cracking of end-papers; a far nicer copy than usual nonetheless of a book that does not tend to wear well. A utopian novel set in Boston in the far future written in the 1870s by a boston carriage-maker but rejected for publication in 1880 as having too slight a story and published here in a revised form after the success of Bellamy’s ‘Looking Backward’ which first appeared in 1888. “Among the more readable ideal societies†- Bleiler Science Fiction: The Early Years 2167; Anatomy of Wonder II 1132; Clarke Tale of the Future p.17; Lewis Utopian Literature p.188; Locke Spectrum p.212; Negley Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 1096; Reginald 14058; Bleiler 1978 p.192; Bleiler 1948 p.265; Wright III 5430. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : ERT119891

‎GRIFFITH George ie. GC. Griffith Jones. i. e. G. C.‎

‎The outlaws Of The air.‎

‎By George Griffith Author of “The Angel of the Revolution†“Olga Romanoff; or The Syren of the Skies†Etc. etc. With illustrations by E.S. Hope. Frontispiece by Raymond Potter. London Tower Publishing Company Limited 95 Minories E.C. 1895. Copyrighted Abroad All Foreign Rights Reserved. Sm.demy 8vo; frontispiece with tissue guard and three plates on text-paper; numerous illustrations in the text; pp.viii376; rich brown buckram blocked black and scarlet lettered black blue-green and black-outlined blue-green on front cover ruled lettered and blocked with publisher’s device gilt lettered with publisher’s motto blind through gilt on spine. Slight wear to extremities of spine; one or two corners lightly creased; otherwise a nice copy. Locke’s ‘Spectrum’ p.98 giving a collation that ignores the prelims.; Clarke ‘Tale of the Future’ p.42; not in Sadleir; Wolff 2797 describing the cloth colour as ‘mustard’ ‘old mustard’ we would accept!. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : ERT103986

‎CARROLL Lewis ie. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. i. e.‎

‎Sylvie and Bruno.‎

‎With forty-six illustrations By Harry Furniss. Price three half-crowns. London Macmillan and Co. And New York 1889. The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved. Sm.cr.8vo; integral wood-engraved frontispiece with tissue guard; other illustrations in text; 4pp. text-paper advertisements tipped in at end; pp.xxiv including frontispiece400 4; scarlet buckram ruled and blocked gilt on sides and spine lettered gilt on spine; a.e.g.; end-papers faced black. Some barely perceptible fading of spine; neat ownership signature on upper margin of half-title and half-title foxed; otherwise a fine copy. Adventures in fairyland etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : ERT103915

‎GRANT Charles William.‎

‎John justified: A reply To the “Fight in Dame Europa’s school†Showing that “There are always Two Sides to Every Question.†“Floreat justitia.†London: Simpkin Marshall and Co.‎

‎Bath: R.E. Peach. Price Sixpence. N.D. 1871. One gathering pott 8vo sewn; half-title not called for; pp.16; grey wrappers cut flush printed in black the front wrapper reproducing the title-page with the addition of “Seventy-third edition†at the head otherwise printed with publisher’s and commercial Bath advertisements; issued without end-papers. Some foxing otherwise a nice copy. Uncommon in any printing. According to COPAC the British Library Cambridge and Trinity College Dublin appear to have the first edition and also possibly Manchester; Oxford has the 27th printing; Cambridge the 10th 34th 93rd and 109th: no other copies are recorded; not in Sadleir; Wolff 5670e recording the 30th printing; Locke ‘Spectrum I’ p.17 recording a copy without wrappers and hence of unknown status. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : ERT119389

‎DOYLE A. Conan.‎

‎Round the red lamp Being Facts and fancies of Medical life By A.‎

‎Conan Doyle Author of ‘Micah Clarke’ ‘The White Company’ ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ etc. Methuen & Co. 36 Essex Street W.C. London 1894. Pp.viii328; publisher’s inserted 32pp. catalogue at end dated October 1894; vertically fine-ribbed dull scarlet cloth lettered gilt within gilt-ruled boxes on spine; a.e. uncut. Scattering of small pressure-dints on front cover but a very nice copy nonetheless fine internally. Scarce thus. Includes two science fantasy stories ‘The Los Amigos Fiasco’ and ‘Lot No.249’ the former selected for mention by Clute and Nichols p.352; not in Locke’s ‘Spectrum’ though ‘Spectrum II’ records a later edition; this title not in Sadleir; Wolff 1915; Green & Gibson A16a. Published on the 23rd October 1894. 6000 copies were printed. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : ERT103953

‎OSWALD EJ.. E. J.‎

‎The Dragon of the North: A tale of the Normans In Italy.‎

‎By E.J. Oswald Author of ‘By Fell and Fjord’ ‘Scenes and Studies in Iceland’ etc. London Seeley & Co. 46 47 & 48 Essex Street Strand Late of 54 Fleet Street 1888 i.e. Winter 1887. Extra cr.8vo; wood-engraved frontispiece and seven plates all captioned in red; integral advertisement leaf followed by publisher’s inserted 16pp. catalogue at end not dated but including an advertisement of ‘The Portfolio. Volume for 1887; pp.xii350ii; patterned-sand-grain yellow-ochre cloth ruled brown lettered gilt pictorially blocked gilt and brown on front cover ruled brown lettered and pictorially blocked gilt on spine; end-papers coated yellow. Covers a little dusty; ink numerals and small rubber-stamp of the Joint Fiction Reserve on front end-paper but no other signs of library use; couple of blank corners creased; otherwise a nice copy. Scarce. A very early example of sword and sorcery with a good historical background and a setting of eleventh century Italy. Not in Bleiler Clute and Nicholls or Locke’s ‘Spectra’; Nield ‘Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales’ 1911 Supplement p.262 recording it as a juvenile. There is no list of illustrations but they are tipped in to face pp.32 48 166 242 272 322 and 346. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : ERT118670

‎GREENWOOD James.‎

‎Legends Of Savage life.‎

‎With thirty-six illustrations drawn on wood by Ernest Griset From his original designs. London: John Camden Hotten Piccadilly 1869. The right of translation and reproduction is reserved. Double f’cap 8vo; Illustrated Title frontispiece precedes letterpress title with publisher’s large wood-engraved device; half-title not called for but fly-title present to each story; twenty-three plates inserted but included in the pagination and twelve illustrations in the text; pp.164; 16pp. publisher’s inserted advertisements at end; bright green patterned-sand-grain cloth ruled blind on sides blocked with elaborate formal circular design blind on back cover blocked with illustration by Griset gilt on front cover lettered gilt on front cover and up spine; end-papers faced very dark green; large hand-coloured advertisement slip for “The Hatchet Throwers†also by Greenwood and illustrated by Griset and “Uniform with the present work†tipped-on to the front end-paper as issued. Re-cased with the original somewhat frayed back-strip laid on; end-papers repaired at gutters with near-matching paper; slight dusting passim and a few leaves a little frayed or creased at extreme blank fore-margins; a good copy only of a difficult title. Juvenile. From the library of Eric Quayle but without sign of provenance. Despite having a different publisher the design of the covers is uniform with that of ‘The Purgatory of Peter the Cruel’ issued the year previously. The ‘plain’ issue published at 5s. There was also a hand-coloured issue published at 7s 6d. It is something of a surprise to find that the publisher should have thought it worth while hand-colouring the advertisement slip in a plain issue of the book. Hand-coloured advertisement slips must in any case be very scarce! Griset is described on it as “The English Gustav Doréâ€. Comic stories involving magical elements of various sorts. COPAC records copies at V & A Oxford Cambridge Bristol and Birmingham only. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : ERT118537

‎MAC DONALD George.‎

‎Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women.‎

‎By George Mac Donald Author of “Within and Without.†London: Smith Elder and Co. 65 Cornhill 1858. The right of Translation is reserved. Pp.iv323i blank; publisher’s inserted 16pp. catalogue at end dated September 1858 headed “Works in the Press†and including this title as the seventh entry; olive green near horizontal straight grain morocco cloth ruled and blocked blind on sides ruled blocked and lettered gilt on spine; t.e. uncut others rough-trimmed; end-papers coated dark cream; binder’s ticket of ‘Westleys / & Co / London’ Ball 103 C on back paste-down. Almost invisibly re-cased without disturbing the front end-papers; back end-papers neatly strengthened at hinge with matching paper visible only on the paste-down; cloth of spine a trifle faded and showing slight wear at extreme head and tail; faint damp-streak to cloth of front cover; one gathering slightly proud but not loose; removable light pencilled notes on margins of one page; otherwise a very nice copy. The first issue with the earliest advertisements and the probable first issued state of the binding. Wolff 4296d records a presentation copy sent direct from the publisher in this binding though he also records an anomalous copy in blue-green ripple-grain cloth differently blocked and lettered but with the same catalogue which may have been a binding trial. Locke ‘Spectrum’ p.146 recording a copy similar to this; Sadleir 1479 recording a copy with advertisements dated July 1859. Both note the extreme scarcity of this title in good or even acceptable condition - the Locke copy having the joints repaired and being otherwise only ‘fairly good’. Gatherings Q and R are here signed also with a dagger which may perhaps indicate substitutions revisions having possibly been made during the course of printing. Macdonald’s best known book which may have had influence both on ‘The Night Land’ and some of the writings of Lord Dunsany. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : ERT104076

‎GREENWOOD James.‎

‎The purgatory Of Peter the cruel.‎

‎With thirty-six illustrations drawn on wood by Ernest Griset. London: George Routledge & Sons The Broadway Ludgate; New York: 416 Broome Street 1868. The right of translation and reproduction is reserved. Double cr.8vo; wood-engraved frontispiece and twenty-three inserted plates all included in the pagination; twelve illustrations in text; pp.164; inserted advertisement leaf on text-paper at end; sand-grain royal blue cloth ruled blind on sides gilt on spine blocked with elaborate formal circular design blind on back cover blocked with illustration by Griset gilt on front cover lettered gilt on front cover and up spine; end-papers faced pale yellow. Small repairs to spine at head and tail and front paste-down repaired with similarly coloured period paper; back end-papers slightly chipped at hinge; tiny chips to extreme blank fore-corners of several leaves and two or three small chips or tears to blank margins one repaired with ghost-tape; otherwise and in general effect a nice copy. From the library of Eric Quayle with his pencilled notes on the back of the front end-paper. Transmigration of souls through a series of lower life-forms. Juvenile. The ordinary issue published at 5s. There was also an issue with the plates hand-coloured published at 7s. 6d. and the book is also known in an otherwise similar binding with the cloth colour either red or green. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : ERT118534

‎DRUERY Chas. T. FLS.. F. L.‎

‎The new Gulliver Or Travels in Athomia.‎

‎Inspired by and Dedicated to Chronanthropos sophilio. The Roxburghe Press Limited Fifteen Victoria Street Westminster N.D. 1897. Frontispiece and fifteen plates by T.P. Collings after designs by the author; title-page printed in dark green; buff art linen ruled black and red on sides and spine blocked black lettered red red outlined black and buff-hatched red on front cover blocked with publisher’s device in red lettered black on spine; a.e. uncut; end-papers faced dark red-chocolate. Half-title lightly foxed and a very little light foxing passim; otherwise a fine copy. The elaborate binding design on this copy is signed by Collings. Locke’s ‘Spectrum’ p.72 noting that the book is seen in a variety of bindings. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : ERT103957

‎DAVIDSON John.‎

‎A full and true Account of the Wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender which Lasted one night And one day: With a history Of the pursuit of Earl Lavender And Lord Brumm by Mrs Scamler and Maud Emblem.‎

‎By John Davidson. With a frontispiece By Aubrey Beardsley. London: 12 York Buildings Adelphi: Ward & Downey Limited 1895. Lge.post 8vo; frontispiece on art paper with tissue guard; title-page printed in black and red with introductory verse in black on verso; leaf bearing epigraph on recto blank on verso author’s Note two leaves and Contents leaf precede start of text; integral advertisement leaf at end; pp.xii290ii; deep sea-green buckram lettered gilt on front cover and spine; a.e. uncut; end-papers coated deep purple. Some very slight fading of cloth on spine and edges of boards; insignificant crease to corner of front end-paper; otherwise a very nice copy. An amusing and very readable fantasy satire on fin de siécle attitudes in general and particularly those of the decadents and æsthetes including minor episodes of flagellation set in a kind of city existing beneath London. Not entirely fantasy however: the Scottish writer who makes his appearance at the Prosemen’s Club and takes the decision to kill himself because there are only about six books a year that he could write about at length and he is forced to spend all his days reviewing in order to live is not perhaps wholly unconnected with the author himself who was a member of the Rhymer’s Club and did in fact kill himself some fourteen years later for reasons not utterly dissimilar. Clute & Nicholls p.303; CBEL III p.337; Lasner Beardsley bibliography 82: the first binding later copies being in blue cloth. In this copy the following errata and typographical flaws have been noted state or issue significance if any undetermined: p.16 l.12 faint risen space after ‘look’; p.28 l.11 ‘they oung’ for ‘the young’; p.50 l.11 ‘l’ of ‘elbow’ impressed too heavily; p.54 last line ‘o’ in ‘occurred’ broken; p.69 last line ‘g’ in ‘everything’ printed faintly; p.98 l.2 ‘W’ in ‘We’ and l.8 ‘d’ in ‘minds’ broken; p.119 l.7 first ‘p’ in ‘appointed’ battered at tail; p.123 antepenultimate line raised space before ‘Brumm’s’; p.129 l.12 ‘indentity’ for ‘identity’; p.151 l.3 risen space before ‘but’; p.174 l.21 ‘p’ in ‘pushing’ broken; p.177 l.6 risen space after ‘bless’; p.203 l.1 ‘a’ of ‘what’ and l.4 ‘d’ of ‘remind’ broken; p.241 l.13 redundant hyphen before start of line; p.253 l.2 of drop-head ‘THOUHGT’ for ‘THOUGHT’; p.262 l.12 ‘o’ in ‘potion’ broken; p.275 l.5 ‘t’ lacking in first ‘the’ and l.14 ‘W’ in ‘Whipping’ broken. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : ERT103943

‎STOCKTON Frank R..‎

‎The great stone Of Sardis.‎

‎A novel By Frank R. Stockton. Illustrated by Peter Newell. London and New York Harper Brothers 45 Albemarle Street W. 1898. Blank before half-title; half-tone frontispiece with tissue guard and fifty-one illustrations all on art paper; pp.xii341i blank; vertically fine-ribbed brown cloth blocked silver and black lettered silver-outlined-gilt and gilt on front cover and spine; fore-edges uncut lower-edges rough-trimmed. Fine copy but v.note. The silver and black blocking on the spine is virtually amorphous and of somewhat vague import. It looks like smoke leaking from the lettering of the title. It is possibly an unintentional impression from the foils used for the front cover. Locke ‘Spectrum’ p.206 not noticing the spine blocking; Blanck 18929 refers but does not describe the binding of the English edition; Clarke ‘Tale of the Future’ 1961 p.42 recording the American edition: “In 1947 a scientist leads a submarine expedition to the North Poleâ€. On the evidence of advertisements the English edition would appear to have been published two weeks after the American edition. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : ERT117760

‎STOCKTON Frank R..‎

‎The Rudder Graingers Abroad And other stories.‎

‎Sampson Low Marston & Company Limited St Dunstan’s House Fetter Lane Fleet Street E.C. 1892. Blank before half-title; pp.viii195i blank; olive green buckram blocked with publisher’s monogram in blind on back cover blocked pictorially marina blue pale green orange and black lettered gilt black and black-shadowed gilt on front cover blocked pictorially black pale green and marina blue lettered gilt on spine; t.e. uncut others mainly trimmed; end-papers coated cream. Nice copy. Scarce. First English edition of a book published in America in 1891 Wright III 5250. Blanck 18904 refers. Printed in England possibly from the American plates. Short stories including at least one science fiction involving the transportation of electrical batteries at sea in an iron hulled ship and a broken underwater telegraphic cable. This title not in Locke’s ‘Spectrum’. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : ERT104163

‎HAGGARD H. Rider and LANG Andrew.‎

‎The world’s desire.‎

‎By H. Rider Haggard And Andrew Lang. London: Longmans Green and Co. 1890. All rights reserved. Leaf bearing Palinode and imprint leaf both blank on verso followed by publisher’s inserted 24pp. Catalogue coded 10000/10/90 at end; dark sage green bevelled smooth cloth lettered gilt on front cover lettered and with short rule gilt on spine; t.e. uncut others mainly trimmed; end-papers coated black. Barely perceptible fading to cloth of spine and adjacent edge of back cover; some light scattered foxing; otherwise a virtually fine copy. The earliest issue copies also being known with advertisements dated 12/90 2/92 and 10/92 and without a catalogue. Published 5 November 1890 in an edition of 10000 copies. Bleiler The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 746; Schlobin The Literature of Fantasy 467; Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature V pp.2176-79; Tymn ed Fantasy Literature pp.93-4; Bleiler 1948 p.138; Bleiler 1978 p.90; Reginald 06582; Wolff 2895; Whatmore F13; Sadleir 1095 listing a copy in navy blue cloth; Scott 16 calling for green cloth. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : ERT104000

‎STEWART George.‎

‎Shetland Fireside tales; Or The Hermit of Trosswickness.‎

‎By G.S.L. Edinburgh: The Edinburgh Publishing Company. London: Simpkin Marshall & Co. 1877. Pott 8vo; half-title not called for; pp.iv239i blank; brown patterned-sand-grain cloth ruled and blocked blind on back cover black on front cover ruled and lettered gilt on spine. Very slight rubbing to gilt and wrinkling to cloth at extreme lower edge of front cover; two gatherings slightly proud but not loose apparently an original binding fault; faint contemporary ownership inscription on front end-paper v. note; otherwise a nice copy. Very scarce. A linked series of short stories and anecdotes set in the 1740s mostly fantasy or wierd arising out of the superstitious beliefs and customs of the Shetlanders as known to the author in his youth together with a few including the linking story that are criminous. “It is characteristic of a primitaive people that they cling fondly to old manners and customs and so a century may pass over them and leave little or no change in their ideas or modes of life. This fact has enabled the author to place the time of his story about the middle of the last century and yet draw many of its incidents from the experiences of his own boyhood. Old people then living could carry their recollection back to the middle of the previous century; and thus by his own observation together with the testimony of others he has had the means of comparing the manners and the customs of the Shetland peasantry for a period of more than 120 years.†- Author’s note pp.225-6. Written in a mixture of English for the linking story and the longest of the wierd ones Shetland dialect and in places very comprehensible Dutch. The dialect portions are so well done that they form no obstacle to readability and give moreover the very lilt and rhythm of the speech of a people for whom supernatural agencies were as real a part of everyday life as sheep and boats. I say this as one who usually finds dialect unreadable! The ownership inscription reads: “G. Gilfillan / Dundee / 1878†and may possibly be that of George Gilfillan 1813 - 1878 the essayist divine spasmodic poet friend of de Quincey Carlyle etc. who was a minister there but is best remembered to-day through the works of his protégé William McGonagall. The book was reprinted at Lerwick in 1879 possibly as a paperback: it was issued at 1s. 6d. as against the 2s. of the original 1892 1923 1924 and 2012. All editions except the latest are now scarce. Of this first edition COPAC records copies at the British Library Oxford Cambridge Trinity College Dublin The National Library of Scotland and Edinburgh only; not in Bleiler Locke’s ‘Spectrum’ etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : ERT119826

‎NASH Henry.‎

‎Barerock Or The island of pearls.‎

‎Illustrated by Lancelot Speed. London Edward Arnold 37 Bedford Street Strand W.C. All rights reserved N.D. 1891. Extra cr.8vo; half-title not called for; integral wood-engraved frontispiece with tissue guard and sixteen illustrations in text mostly full-page and unbacked; pp.x including frontispiece411i blank; dove grey buckram pictorially blocked brown grey-green flesh-pink and black on front cover and spine lettered black-shadowed gilt and gilt-beaded brown on front cover lettered gilt gilt-beaded brown and black on spine; a.e.g.; end-papers printed with orange-branch design in pale grey-green. Publisher’s label on front cover and rubber-stamp on blank recto of frontispiece; offsetting affecting last two gatherings v. note; otherwise a very nice copy. The Publisher’s File Copy so designated by the rubber-stamp and label. A very early Arnold title published before they had adopted a policy of plain cover designs and unusual among Arnold firsts in not bearing a date. The correct first issue the volume being re-issued in 1894 trimmed down to cr.8vo format. The offsetting from wet sheets affecting the last two gatherings in the present volume may suggest that it was in fact an advance copy or proof. An action-packed juvenile that is a kind of blending of ‘The Coral Island’ with some of Rider Haggard’s African romances but without the factual consistency of setting that gives to them their verisimilitude: it is instead a show-case very often for the author’s ignorance - unnecessary improbabilities ranging from a sailor telling his fellow sailor at sea that it is ‘two o’clock’ to a boa contrictor in Africa! killing its prey with a bite! Includes some lost-race and fantasy elements in particular an episode depending upon mesmerism instructions being transmitted by thought processes alone. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : ERT104106

‎PULLEN Henry William..‎

‎The fight At Dame Europa’s school: Shewing how The German boy thrashed the French boy; And how the English boy looked on.‎

‎London: Simpkin Marshall and Co. Salisbury: Brown and Co. The Right of Translation is Reserved. N.D. 1870. Double pott 16mo sewn as a single gathering; half-title not called for; 3pp. Brown and Co. and trade advertisements at end; pp.28iiii blank; light blue-green paper wrappers cut flush printed outside in black the back wrapper advertising translations into French and German as “Now Ready Price Sixpenceâ€; issued without end-papers. Slight foxing of wrappers with offsetting onto facing leaves; otherwise a nice copy. Scarce especially thus. Published “Price Sixpence†as stated on the wrappers. This first edition which was of only 500 copies was printed at Salisbury and bears the printer’s imprint: “Bennett printer Journal Office†on the verso of the title-page and at the end of text. The second and later printings declare their status on the wrappers. Demand was such that printing was transferred to Spottiswoode’s in London at the end of January 1871 and by then 29000 copies had been sold. Subsequent editions published from 1871 onwards were illustrated by T. Nast. The pamphlet ran to at least twenty-seven printings or editions reaching its 193rd thousand in 1874 and was still in print as late as 1914. Though the pamphlet is common in libraries copies of the true first printing in the original wrappers as here are very scarce especially in nice state. All the advertisements in this copy are for Brown & Co.’s publications supported by various London firms with the exception of the last which is for an anonymous three-decker published by Smith Elder and Co. ‘Six Months Hence’. The wrapper advertisements are with regard to the imprint the same as the title-page. Wolff 5670a recording the 50th thousand; Locke ‘Spectrum’ I p.16 and Wolff 5671/1 both recording copies without wrappers and hence of unknown status; not in Sadleir; British Library and National Library of Scotland copies only of the first printing on COPAC. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : ERT119388

‎CARROLL Lewis ie. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. i. e.‎

‎Sylvie and Bruno.‎

‎With forty-six illustrations By Harry Furniss. Price three half-crowns. London Macmillan and Co. And New York 1889. The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved. Sm.cr.8vo; integral wood-engraved frontispiece with tissue guard; other illustrations in text; 4pp. text-paper advertisements tipped in at end; pp.xxiv including frontispiece400 4; scarlet buckram ruled and blocked gilt on sides and spine lettered gilt on spine; a.e.g.; end-papers faced black. Small restoration to cloth at extreme headband and very slight fading of covers; neat ownership signature on upper margin of half-title and another very small on blank verso of final advertisement leaf; an unusually nice copy nonetheless. Adventures in fairyland etc. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : ERT103916

‎CARTER Edward Tremlett.‎

‎The Artemis Library: The People of the Moon.‎

‎A Novel. With illustrations by A. d’Aguilcourt. London: “The Electrician†Printing and Publishing Company Limited 1 2 and 3 Salisbury Court Fleet Street N.D. 1895. All rights reserved. Extra cr.8vo; half-title not called for; dedication Contents and List of Illustrations leaves precede start of text; frontispiece and seven half-tone plates; twenty-one illustrations in the text; printer’s imprint leaf at end blank on recto; pp.vi402ii; 8pp. publisher’s inserted advertisements at end; diagonally fine-ribbed cobalt blue buckram-surfaced cloth blocked scarlet on back cover blocked and lettered black scarlet and silver on front cover and spine; a.e. silver; end-papers printed florally in olive. Slight rubbing to head and tail of spine and a couple of small nicks to tailband; lengthy inscriptions on front end-papers and dedication leaf removed v. note; one or two light pencilled notes and other markings mostly marginal and one in ink v. note; some foxing to prelims. and a couple of other leaves; otherwise a very nice copy. Inscribed in ink on the front free end-paper “I. or possibly ‘J’ Mitchell /From the Author.†Something before the ‘Mitchell’ has been overwritten ‘Ms.’ in a darker ink possibly by a daughter and “21st. April 1899.†in the same ink. Since the remainder of the front end-papers are taken up by lengthy quotations from the works of Byron and Tennyson and a reminder of a performance of ‘Lascia ch’io piagna’ written in the same hand and all suggestive of romantic connotations it is a reasonable hypothesis that the dedication leaf dating from some three or four years earlier was either removed by the the author himself before the book was given or contained an inscription that either the original recipient or the later Ms. Mitchell wished to suppress. The original dedication read “This little book is affectionately dedicated to the memory of that dear friend whose name is inscribed in a Devonshire churchyard but whose spirit has passed.†The verso bore two lines from Tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam’ xxiii stanza 4 followed by fourteen from Byron’s ‘Mazeppa’ the opening of stanza VI and these with variations the first two lines of the Byron having been omitted and two added to the Tennyson completing the stanza have here been transcribed onto the front end-papers. The light pencil scoring drawing attention to particular passages may be in two different hands as also the corrections of typos etc. but the reading date ‘May 8th. 1899’ at the end appears to be that of Ms. Mitchell. Attention is certainly being drawn in at least one place to meanings beyond the mere sense of the text. A wavy line on p.305 is drawn beside the passage: “Yet betwixt her and him there was a great chasm fixed; so that it was impossible for him to go to her while it seemed equally impossible for her to ascend to him.â€! Corrections etc. have been made as follows: p.24 ll.9 and last line p.27 l.13 p.54 l.8 and p.72 l.10 ‘s’ of ‘towards’ struck out in pencil; p.28 l.24 ‘my’ underlined and the correction ‘many’ added in the margin; p.147 l.23 ‘lay’ altered to ‘laid’; p.196 l.24 full-stop altered to question-mark; p.198 l.29 after the name ‘Almida’ is pencilled ‘= Truth’. Those to p.147 and p.196 appear not to be authorial but in a different hand presumably that of the recipient. The author who was born in Calcutta in 1866 was privately educated at Bristol and later at the Merchant Venturer’s College in that city and at Bristol University College where he studied physics and engineering joining the staff of ‘The Electrician’ in 1893 and becoming editor in 1897 a post from which he resigned in the Winter of 1899 after becoming ill. He died in 1902 nursed by his wife. A member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers the Société des Ingénieurs Civils de France and Fellow of the Physical Society of London he was deeply interested in physics especially astrophysics and the bearing of astronomical phenomena and history on the evolution theory of the universe. His general interest in science and involvement with the scientific community perhaps prompted him to foresee a number of advances that have since occurred as well as many that have not: anti-gravity telepathy hypnosis air-conditioning television a speech synthesiser that scans and reads books vertical-take-off-and-landing aircraft airships autopilots something resembling atomic energy the use of aluminium in building remote sensors electric lifts elevated electric railways matter transmitters videophones force-shields that only intercept fast-moving objects reconstitutable dried foods superconductors. A book that may have had some influence on H.G. Wells whose ‘First Men in the Moon’ appeared some five of six years later and like this tells of a race of beings living inside a largely hollow moon - though the first section set on Earth is dominated by a character Professor Goss who seems a precursor of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Professor Challenger. Published according to the ‘English Catalogue of Books’ in October 1895. The imprint leaf reads on verso: “London: / Printed by Geo. Tucker Salisbury Court Fleet Street E.C.†the street numbers being given in the advertisements. A very scarce title COPAC recording only the Oxford Cambridge and National Library of Scotland copies; not in Sadleir Wolff Clute and Nicholls or the British Library Catalogue; Locke ‘Spectrum’ I p.48. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : ERT118901

‎BERINGTON Simon..‎

‎The adventures Of Signor Gaudentio di Lucca: Being the substance of his Examination before the fathers of the inquisition At Bologna in Italy: Giving an Account of an unknown country In the midst of The deserts of Africa.‎

‎Copied from The original manuscript in St. Mark’s library at Venice. With critical notes By the learned Signor Rhedi. Translated from the Italian. London: Thomas Kelly Paternoster-row N.D. c.1827. Demy 8vo in half-sheets; half-title not present probably not called for; steel-engraved frontispiece; pp.2141i blank. Includes a dedication by T.S. Gueulette translated from the first French edition not present in the original English one. BOUND WITH: VOLTAIRE M. de. Zadig; Or The book of fate An oriental history. Translated from the French of M. de Voltaire. London: Thomas Kelly Paternoster-row N.D. c.1827. Demy 8vo in half-sheets; half-title not present probably not called for; steel-engraved frontispiece; pp.59I blank. BOUND WITH: WALPOLE Horace. The Castle of Otranto: A gothic story. Translated by W. Marshall Gent. From the Original Italian of Onuphrio Muralto Canon of the church of St. Nicholas at Otranto. London: Thomas Kelly Paternoster-row N.D. c.1827. Demy 8vo in half-sheets; half-title not present probably not called for; steel-engraved frontispiece; pp.73i blank. Includes the Preface to the First Edition the Preface to the Second Edition and a publisher’s Advertisement quoting a letter of Walpole’s concerning the origin of the work. BOUND WITH: GUEULETTE M. Tartarian tales; Or a Thousand and one quarters of hours. Written in French By M.Gueulette. Translated by Thomas Flloyd. sic London: Thomas Kelly Paternoster-row N.D. c.1827. Demy 8vo in half-sheets; half-title not present; steel-engraved frontispiece; pp.iii-197i blank. Four volumes in the series ‘Popular Tales’ bound together in one volume; modern white wrappers paper spine label. Marginal embrowning of poor quality paper throughout and plates lightly foxed; a dozen fore-margins in first work a trifle snagged; otherwise nice. Scarce. First published respectively in 1735 CBEL or 1737 McBurney; 1764; 1747; and 1715. All the works contain at least some fantasy elements; the first is lost race. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown‎

书商的参考编号 : ERT103903

‎Alfred Coppel‎

‎Glory's People Goldenwing Cycle Book 3‎

‎New York: Tor Books 1996. BI5 - A first edition stated with complete numberline hardcover book SIGNED by author on a bookplate adhered on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners light discoloration and shelf wear. Glory's People Goldenwing Cycle Book 3. A Novel of the Goldenwings. 8.5"x5.75" 320 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Alfred Coppel Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel was an American author. Born in Oakland California he served as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After his discharge he started his career as a writer. He became one of the most prolific pulp authors of the 1950s and 1960s adopting the pseudonyms Robert Cham Gilman and A.C. Marin and writing for a variety of pulp magazines and later "slick" publishers. Though writing in a variety of genres including action thrillers he is known for his science fiction stories which comprise both short stories and novels. Coppel's first science fiction story was "Age of Unreason" 1947 in Amazing Stories. Other short stories include "The Dreamer" 1952 about a man called Denby who wants to be the first to orbit the moon published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and reprinted in the anthology Best Short Shorts 1958 edited by Eric Berger. His 1960 post-holocaust novel Dark December describes the aftermath of nuclear war. As Robert Cham Gilman he wrote the Rhada sequence of science fiction novels aimed at the young adult market. These space operas set within a galactic empire comprise: The Rebel of Rhada 1968 The Navigator of Rhada 1969 The Starkahn of Rhada 1970 and a prequel called The Warlock of Rhada 1985. The Rebel of Rhada is an expansion with many changes including a significantly different ending of "The Rebel of Valkyr" published in 1950 under his own name and included in Brian Aldiss's collection Galactic Empires. The Burning Mountain: A Novel of the Invasion of Japan 1983 is an alternate history depicting what could have happened if the United States and its allies had been forced to invade Japan in 1946 had the Trinity test of the Fat Man nuclear design tested on July 16 1945 failed. This is based on the Operation Coronet and Operation Olympic United States battle plans for the invasion of Japan which were rendered moot by Japan's surrender after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In 1974 he had a bestseller with the suspense thriller Thirty-Four East about the Arab-Israeli conflict. Another political thriller was The Apocalypse Brigade 1981 about the United States at war with global terrorism. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Tor Books Hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : EC37041BB ???????? : 0312861680 9780312861681

‎Conklin Groff editor‎

‎17 X Infinity‎

‎Dell 1963. Dell 7746. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Dell Paperback‎

书商的参考编号 : 03041041

‎Feist Raymond E.‎

‎Faerie Tale‎

‎Bantam 1989. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Bantam Paperback‎

书商的参考编号 : 03041036 ???????? : 0553277839 9780553277838