With 68 Full-Page Illustrations. I. MERIDIANA... II. A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1874. 8 pp undated ads. Original brown cloth decorated in gilt and black. First Combined Edition. On the very same day that Scribner, Armstrong published the authorized American edition.....
New York: J.S. Ogilvie, n.d. [1890]. 1 page preliminary ads plus 2 pp terminal ads. Original dark blue-green cloth. First American Edition (and first edition in the English language). This is the sequel to Verne's "Moon" books of many years earlier: quoting from the preliminary ad leaf, this is the.....
[1902 in dust jacket] of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. 4 pp undated ads. Original grey boards with printed spine label, with fabric dust jacket. First American Edition of this book of prophecies for the.....
London: Methuen & Co., 1897. 40 pp ads dated March 1897. Original red cloth. First Edition of this collection of seventeen strange stories, mostly along a science fiction vein. The title story involves a schoolteacher who disappears in an explosion in the school's chemistry lab, has a nine-day out-of-body experience.....
[a handsome copy] London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. 2 pp undated ads. Original light brown cloth decorated in dark brown. First Edition of this collection of five fantastic tales: "The Crystal Egg," "The Star," "A Story of the Stone Age," "A Story of the Days to Come".....
And particularly how Mr. Bert Smallways fared while it lasted. With Illustrations by A.C. Michael. London: George Bell and Sons, 1908. 2 pp undated ads. Original blue cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this extraordinary tale of a Cockney cycle mechanic who is carried off by a drifting balloon.....
New York (and London): Macmillan and Co., 1895. Original olive green cloth elaborately decorated in white and lettered in gilt. First American Edition of Wells's second novel, a strange tale that "originated in a remark attributed to John Ruskin, that if an angel came to earth most Englishmen would simply.....
With a Frontispiece by Jack B. Yeats. London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1893. 1 page preliminary undated ads. Original pea green cloth. First Edition of this very early work by Yeats (his fifth), a volume of Irish country tales often with supernatural aspects -- Yeats's "most creative attempt to render his.....
