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Adventures in the Moon,: and other Worlds.
de RUSSELL, John Russell, Earl (1792-1878)?]
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Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
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EARLY SCIENCE FICTION
first edition tall 12mo. [6 (half-title, title & contents)], 447, [1 (printer's slug)]pp. plus at the rear (smaller & separately printed) 4 pages (of 12) of Longman &c. advertisements dated 'November, 1836', original pale greyish olive green horizontally fine-ribbed cloth, large decorative design blind blocked on sides, spine with a gilt blocked decorative panel incorporating the title, pale yellow endpapers, central 8 leaves of the advertisements lacking, dark mark at top edge of front board and a few minor dark marks on spine, neatly recased with the original endpapers reused, generally a very good copy.
Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 17 Locke Voyages in Space 3 Bleiler Checklist of Science-Fiction & Supernatural Fiction (1978), p. 172
This rare and anonymous early science fiction work is usually attributed to Russell. "Collection of dialogues and essays, together with a short novel, A Journey to the Moon (pages 3 to 148). In this, the narrator uses a mechanical spacecraft of unspecified propulsive principle to visit the Moon, which has air inhabited by the spirits of dead Earthmen, together with such abstract things as lost vices, advice, virtues, etc. There is also a little technology described ... Very difficult in original cloth" [Locke].
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- P & B Rowan
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 53387
- Título
- Adventures in the Moon,
- Autor
- RUSSELL, John Russell, Earl (1792-1878)?]
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Original cloth
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Editorial
- Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1836
- Tamaño
- tall 12mo.
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- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- novel fantasy science-fiction space moon
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