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Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Vii, 255 Pp + 2 Pp Ads At Rear. First American Edition, With 1887 Date At Bottom Of Title Page. Three Quarter Red Cloth, Spine Lettered In Black; Marbled Boards. Bookplate Of Southwest Museum Anthropologist (And Writer For Weird Tales) Bruce Bryan, With His Ownership Signature. Light Wear, A Few Small Frays Along Bottom Edge, Titled Page Detached For 1/2" At Top Spine Edge.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Lang, Andrew. In The Wrong Paradise And Other Stories. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1887.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Half Red Cloth And Marbled Paper Covered Boards, Black Spine Titles, Contents Clean, Binding Tight And Square, Over 15 Years Book Selling Experience
Seller: Bookman21century, Vista, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine in original wrappers with minor wear at the spine extremities and a short closed tear on the rear panel. Complete issue.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: VG original red cloth over marbled boards, corners slightly bumped, slight staining to covers & base of book, front board slightly rubbed, otherwise very clean throughout.
Seller: N & A Smiles, Kellerberrin, WA, Australia
LANG, Andrew. In the Wrong Paradise and Other Stories. , 1887.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: LANG, Andrew. In the Wrong Paradise and Other Stories. Original 3/4 red cloth and marbled boards. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1887. First American edition. Dedicated to H. Rider Haggard. Spine lightly sunned, extremities rubbed, small private ownership stamps on front pastedown and titlepage, else very good.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Lang, Andrew. IN THE WRONG PARADISE AND OTHER STORIES .. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1887.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [vii-viii] 1-255 [256: blank] [257-258: ads], flyleaves at front and rear, original three quarter red cloth and marbled boards, spine panel stamped in black, salmon endpapers. First U.S. edition. Collects nine stories, six of which are fantasies. Includes "The End of Phaeacia," a lost race novella of the discovery of a people of ancient Greek descent in the Pacific, an afterlife fantasy, a prehistoric tale, two ghost stories, a satire of the future, and three non-fantasy stories. Includes Lang's "The Romance of the First Radical" which is "possibly the first short story of prehistoric men and one of the most forceful, openly displaying the analogy to the present . Bittersweet satire." - Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, pp. 29-30. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 44. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-103. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 983. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1269. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 559. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 133. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, p. 28. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 600. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 310. Bleiler (1978), p. 118. Reginald 08589. Cloth lightly rubbed at spine ends and corner tips. A clean, tight, very good copy. A nice copy. (#136338)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
LANG, Andrew.. In The Wrong Paradise and Other Stories.. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1887., 1887.
Price: US$150.31 + shipping
Description: First U.S. edition. 8vo., orig. half cloth, marble boards, (as issued), vi, 255, (2)pp.ads. Name on title, tape marks and two small holes in rear free e/paper, some rubbing to foot of the spine, spine slightly faded, but still a near fine copy.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada