Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1953]. Book-of-the-Month Club Edition. Hardcover. 249pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Blue cloth over boards. Top edge stained red. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown. A sharp copy, in a dust jacket (with rubbing to the surface). #216 in "American Lost-Race Fiction: The Stuart Teitler Collection," a...... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1988. Robert Shore. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. 219pp. Quarto [26 cm] in decorative gilt-stamped black leather with raised spine bands, all edges gilt, moire endpapers, bound-in pagemarker ribbon. Collector's Notes and unused bookplate laid in. From the "Masterpieces of Science Fiction" series. More
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Ltd., 1889. Hardcover. 192pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] in decorative red cloth. Small chip to moderately faded spine at top, light rubbing to extremities, small portion of front board exposed along top; a few very small dampstains to textblock fore-edge, else interior is unmarked..... More
London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1947. First edition. Hardcover. 223pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Red cloth over boards. Spine rolled; spine ends bumped; free endpapers darkened. In the pictorial dust jacket, with a number of small closed and open tears in the edges. The largest tear is to the paper at..... More
Philadelphia, Toronto: John C. Winston Company, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. 216 pp. Octavo. [21.5 cm]. Blue paper over wraps. Scuffing to corners and head/tail of spine. Original dustjacket showing some signs of wear. Hole punch at bottom right corner of front free endpaper and title page. More
Cleveland, OH: The Utopia Publishing Company, 1902. Hardcover. 326pp. Octavo [23 cm] Dark green cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. White and green floral endsheets. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Illustrated. Good. The spine and covers are rubbed, more so along the edges. The..... More
Los Angeles: Baumgardt Publishing Co., 1910. Second edition. Hardcover. 129pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Original white cloth with the title stamped in gilt on the front cover. Frontis portrait of the author. The covers are stained, the preliminary leaves are loose, and the text block is cracked at the beginning. There..... More
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. 209pp. Octavo [22 cm] Red cloth covered boards with a yellow ink stamped title on the spine. The spine and boards are just a bit bumped, rubbed, and spotted. The endpapers are slightly darkened. In a dust jacket, with a...... More
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1928. First American edition. Hardcover. 395pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with light green ink stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Decorative endpapers. The spine and covers show light edge wear. The front endsheet has a prior owner's ink stamp and..... More