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Ash, Fenton [pseudonym of Francis Henry Atkins Sr.]. A TRIP TO MARS. With Six Coloured Illustrations by W. H. C. Groome. London: W. & R. Chambers, 1909. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in blue, black, white and gilt.
First Edition of this tale of a trip to Mars and of encounters with its winged inhabitants. This is one of the group of life-on-Mars tales that came out in the several years following Percival Lowell's 1908 scientific book MARS AS THE ABODE OF LIFE (Lowell was the director of the astronomical observatory at Flagstaff Arizona). Included are six plates in full color. As "Frank Aubrey" and "Fred Ashley," Atkins had written adventure romances such as THE DEVIL-TREE OF EL DORADO, A QUEEN OF ATLANTIS, KING OF THE DEAD and THE RADIUM SEEKERS, and as "Fenton Ash" he would go on to write BY AIRSHIP TO OPHIR, THE BLACK OPAL and THE ISLAND OF GOLD.
This copy is in the primary binding (red cloth, lettering and some of the design in gilt, dark endpapers); there was a secondary binding with the same design, with no gilt and with white endpapers. It is a very good copy, lacking the rear free endpaper; the volume has minor soil and fading, with a bit of wear at the fore-corners. Bleiler Checklist p. 11.
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