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The Purple Cloud
de Shiel, M. P
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Pages toned, tear at center fore-edge of rear blank leaves.
- Librería
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Pages toned, tear at center fore-edge . of rear blank leaves.. 1946. Reprint. Hardcover. Dramatic color jacket illustration by Soshensky. A post-apocalyptic novel about a lone man survivor of a deadly purple cloud of gas that has wiped out all other humans. This novel was first published by the West Indian author in 1901, but is trotted out here in a new jacket to capitalize on a new audience filled with Atomic Age anxiety. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 202 pages .
Sinopsis
The Purple Cloud is a "last man" novel by the British writer M. P. Shiel. It was published in 1901. H. P. Lovecraft later praised the novel as exemplary weird fiction, "delivered with a skill and artistry falling little short of actual majesty. " Frank Belknap Long deemed it "the most unutterably terrible book ever written".
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Detalles
- Librería
- Old Saratoga Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 36120
- Título
- The Purple Cloud
- Autor
- Shiel, M. P
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Pages toned, tear at center fore-edge of rear blank leaves.
- Edición
- Reprint
- Editorial
- The World Publishing Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Cleveland and New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1946
- Palabras clave
- Post-apocalyptic Fiction, Science Fiction
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Science Fiction and Fantasy;
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Old Saratoga Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Selkirk, New York
Sobre Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- New
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
