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Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First of Conrad and Hueffer's collaborations, of an invasion from the fouth dimension - metaphorically. First British edition, first state with no dedication leaf. Hardcover, full yellow cloth, black titling & design. General wear, covers a bit grubby, tiny tears to head of spine, corners bumped; endsheets tanned/foxed; minor foxing to half-title. Text clean; [4], [324] pages + 32 pages ads Size: Octavo
Seller: Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: 324 pp + 32 ads pp. 8vo. first issue [does not have the dedication leaf - top edge trimmed]. Cagle A6b. hinges professionally repaired and some wear to the extremities else a very good copy in original yellow cloth with black stamped spine and cover. a presentable copy. see scans [NB: outer rear hinge starting]
Seller: stephens bookstore, scranton, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$310.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 324 pp + 26 pp adverts, First British edition. 5.1" x 7.7" Yellow cloth boards with black design and lettering. Binding tight, with slight forward lean, pages clean and unmakred, paper well-preserved. spine cloth darkened a bit, top & bottom spine cloth edgeworn with finger pull tear 1/3" or so deep from top edge. Deckled foreedge, with glassine wrapper. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First English edition, first issue without the dedication leaf. 324, 32ads pp. 8vo. Cagle A6(3) binding a; Keating 32; Wise 9 Yellow and black pictorial cloth, spine darkened extremities lightly rubbed First English edition, first issue without the dedication leaf.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-4] 1-323 [324] + [32]-page publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, original pictorial yellow cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel, top edge untrimmed, other edges rough trimmed. First British edition, first issue, first binding. 1520 copies printed (utilizing the plates of the McClure, Phillips edition) of which this is one of 1000 in the first binding (top edge not trimmed; publisher's catalogue inserted at rear; "W H" bracketing windmill on spine panel). This copy does not have the dedication leaf later inserted in a few copies. The only work in the science fiction genre by either Conrad or Ford. Earth is invaded by the Dimensionists, an advanced humanoid race from earth's future, who co-exist with the present in an alternate universe on a different plane in time. A remarkable book that can be read as a probing social satire or as provocative science fiction. See Elaine L. Kleiner, "Joseph Conrad's Forgotten Role in the Emergence of Science Fiction," Extrapolation, 15 (December 1973), 25-34. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-276. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 460. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 186. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 27. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 57. Bleiler (1978), p. 48. Reginald 03318. Cagle A6a(3), binding a. Wise 9. Harvey A9b. Publisher's "presentation copy" embossed stamp on title leaf. Some soiling to cloth, lower corner tips lightly bruised, minor foxing to endpapers, largely along gutter margins, two small, faint tape ghosts on each free endpaper, a tight, very good copy. Externally bright and attractive; the cover soiling is less than is usually encountered on this book. (#80407)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-4] 1-323 [324] + [32]-page publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, original pictorial yellow cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel, all edges untrimmed. First British edition, first issue, first binding. 1520 copies printed (utilizing the plates of the McClure, Phillips edition) of which this is one of 1000 in the first binding (top edge not trimmed; publisher's catalogue inserted at rear; "W H" bracketing windmill on spine panel). This copy does not have the dedication leaf later inserted in a few copies. The only work in the science fiction genre by either Conrad or Ford. Earth is invaded by the Dimensionists, an advanced humanoid race from Earth's future, who coexist with the present in an alternate universe on a different plane in time. A remarkable book that can be read as a probing social satire or as provocative science fiction. See Elaine L. Kleiner, "Joseph Conrad's Forgotten Role in the Emergence of Science Fiction," Extrapolation, 15 (December 1973), 25-34. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-276. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 460. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 186. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 27. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 57. Bleiler (1978), p. 48. Reginald 03318. Cagle A6a(3), binding a. Wise 9. Harvey A9b. Private owner's bookplate affixed to the front paste-down. Shallow fraying to cloth at spine ends, some dust soiling to cloth, short tear in rear free endpaper professionally repaired, a very good copy. (#158279)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.