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THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION: A TALE OF THE COMING TERROR.
London: Tower Publishing Company Limited, 1893. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [1] 2-393 [394: ad], inserted frontispiece with illustration by E. S. Hope and sixteen inserted plates with illustrations by Fred T. Jane, original pictorial bevel-edged blue cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, slate coated endpapers. First edition. The author's first novel, preceded by two poetry books published pseudonymously as "Lara." From the period of 1870 up to 1914, the start of WW I, future war fiction was at it's height of popularity. Griffith was one of the writers who realized the destructive power that aerial warfare would bring to future conflict, as well as the overall impact of new technology on armed conflict. In Griffith's hugely popular and very influential novel the inventor of a new flying ship joins the Brotherhood of Freedom, an organization that controls the work of Nihilists, Anarchists, and Socialists throughout the world and is popularly known as the Terror. When war starts in Europe the daughter of the mysterious Master of the Terrorists, Natas (Satan backwards), plans to let the European powers destroy each other and then the Brotherhood will step in and take over Europe which will then be united (under Anglo-Saxon rule) into a single force to meet the "impending flood of yellow barbarians" assumed to be forming in the East. As the war progresses the Russians overrun all of Europe and invade England. After England's king (Edward VII) surrenders to the Brotherhood, the Russian attackers in England are slaughtered and the Brotherhood's air force quickly conquers the Russian homeland. There is no invasion from Asia and the West is at peace under socialist rule. "THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION is remarkable not only for its extravagant visions of aerial bombing and mass destruction but also for its bastardized political ideology, which is a curious mixture of radical opinions ... Along with M. P. Shiel and H. G. Wells, he anticipated that the next war might be 'the most frightful carnival of destruction the world has ever seen,' involving the slaughter of millions of people, mostly noncombatants. This did not, however, deter him from looking forward to that conflict hopefully and enthusiastically. Like Shiel, he was an Anglo-Saxon chauvinist; like Wells a socialist; and he was hopeful that the apocalyptic clash of forces might result in the end of tyranny in Europe and the permanent victory of Christendom over the religious empires of the East. The attainment of such an end, in his view, would easily justify the death of millions ... By the time Griffith wrote his last novel, THE LORD OF LABOUR (published posthumously in 1911), his war of the imminent future was being fought with atomic missiles and disintegrator rays. He was still looking forward eagerly to the conflict. What effect the spectacle of the actual Great War might have had on his imaginative enthusiasm we can only guess." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 67-71. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-84; (1981) 1-83; (1987) 1-41; (1995) 1-41; and (2004) II-465. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 929. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 365. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 19. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War: Future Wars 1763-3749, p. 229. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 76. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 97. Negley, Utopian Literature 468. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, pp. 36, 45-7. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 67-71. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 52. Bleiler (1978), p. 87. Reginald 06364. Hubin (1994), p. 355.
BROTHERS OF THE CHAIN ...
London: F. V. White & Co., 1900. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi [vii-viii] [1] 2-312 [note: pages 309-312 comprise publisher’s ads], original decorated chocolate-brown pebbled cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel. First edition, second issue with cancel title leaf dated 1900 tipped in on a stub. Sensational thriller concerning the activities of a Mafia-like international secret society of criminals who are run to ground by Pinkerton detectives. Glover & Greene, Victorian Detective Fiction 218. Currey, p. [209]. Hubin (1994), p. 355. Wolff 2793 (describing this second issue).
CAPTAIN ISHMAEL: A SAGA OF THE SOUTH SEAS ...
London: Hutchinson & Co, 1901. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-2] 3-344 [345-348: ads dated "Autumn 1901"], inserted frontispiece, original pictorial red cloth, front panel stamped in black, white and gold, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. "...an extraordinary novel of a man doomed to wander deathless through the ages, who several times meets the Wandering Jew, and in the end invents long-range guns with explosive shells in a 'world of if,' long before anybody else." – Sam Moskowitz, "George Griffith-Warrior of If" in George Locke (ed), The Raid of 'Le Vengeur' and Other Stories by George Griffith (1974), p. 44. "One of Griffith's rarest books..." – Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 97. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, p. 53. Reginald 06366. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978).
THE OUTLAWS OF THE AIR.
London: Tower Publishing Company Limited, 1895. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-viii [1] 2-376, inserted frontispiece with illustration by Raymond Potter, three inserted plates and other illustrations in text by Edwin S. Hope, original pictorial brown cloth, front panel stamped in blue, orange and black, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. "Aerial future warfare and the setting up of a utopian colony in the Pacific; really a repeat performance of THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION" - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 98. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 931. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 21. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War (1992), p. 230. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 76. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 106. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, pp. 48-9. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 61. Bleiler (1978), p. 87. Reginald 06382. Hubin (1994), p. 355. Wolff 2797.
THE ROMANCE OF GOLDEN STAR
London: F. V. White & Co., 1897. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] [1] 2-284 [285]-300: ads, six inserted plates with illustrations by Alfred Pearse, original pictorial green cloth, front panel stamped in yellow, white and black, spine panel stamped in gold, publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel, top edge rough-trimmed fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. A pair of Incas, held in suspended animation for hundreds of years, are revived scientifically; they mount a successful campaign to restore South America to Indian rule. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 933. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 98. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, p. 50. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, pp. 67-8. Bleiler (1978), p. 87. Reginald 06384. Wolff 2798.
THE ROMANCE OF GOLDEN STAR
London: F. V. White & Co., 1897. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vii [viii] [1] 2-284 [285]-300: ads, six inserted plates with illustrations by Alfred Pearse, original pictorial green cloth, front panel stamped in yellow, white and black, spine panel stamped in gold, publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel, top edge rough-trimmed fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. A pair of Incas, held in suspended animation for hundreds of years, are revived scientifically; they mount a successful campaign to restore South America to Indian rule. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 933. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 98. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, p. 50. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, pp. 67-8. Bleiler (1978), p. 87. Reginald 06384. Wolff 2798.
VALDAR THE OFT-BORN: A SAGA OF SEVEN AGES ...
London: London:C. Arthur Pearson, Limited, 1895. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [vii-viii] [1] 2-416, sixteen inserted plates with illustrations by Harold Piffard, original pictorial maroon cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition, first binding. "Fantasy saga of a son of Odin who, upsetting the laws of his polar country and bringing about ragnarok, is doomed to many reincarnations through the ages; basically a series of bloodthirsty historical adventures in a similar vein to [Arnold's] PHRA THE PHOENICIAN." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 98. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-70. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 717. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 370. Bleiler (1978), p. 87. Reginald 06387. Wolff 2799.
VALDAR THE OFT-BORN: A SAGA OF SEVEN AGES ...
London: C. Arthur Pearson, Limited, 1895. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [vii-viii] [1] 2-416, sixteen inserted plates with illustrations by Harold Piffard, original pictorial maroon cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition, first binding. "Fantasy saga of a son of Odin who, upsetting the laws of his polar country and bringing about ragnarok, is doomed to many reincarnations through the ages; basically a series of bloodthirsty historical adventures in a similar vein to [Arnold's] PHRA THE PHOENICIAN." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 98. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-70. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 717. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 370. Bleiler (1978), p. 87. Reginald 06387. Wolff 2799.
THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION: A TALE OF THE COMING TERROR.
Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. New introduction by Sam Moskowitz. The author's first novel, preceded by two poetry books published pseudonymously as "Lara." Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-84; (1981) 1-83; (1987) 1-41; (1995) 1-41; and (2004) II-465.
OLGA ROMANOFF OR THE SYREN OF THE SKIES. A SEQUEL TO "THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION"...
London: Tower Publishing Company Limited, 1894. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [1] 2-377 [378-380: ads], errata slip pasted in between pages [viii] and [1], original pictorial olive-green silk-like cloth, front panel stamped in blue and black, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition, first issue with recto of title leaf dated 1894 and no inserted illustrations by Fred T. Jane. The year is 2030, 125 years after the end of THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION. The defeated descendant of the Tsar of Russia, a villainess-Olga Romanoff, steals an airship from the ruling descendants of The Brotherhood of Freedom and she also obtains their secrets. She joins the current ruler of Islam and they plan to take revenge from the long ago defeat in the last war. Before a war is started the Earth comes under immanent danger from a cosmic cloud which will set the surface of the world aflame. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-85; (1981) 1-85; (1987) 1-42; (1995) 1-42; and (2004) II-465. Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, p. 76. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 930. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 369. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 20. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War (1992), p. 229. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 76. Locke, Voyages in Space 93. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, pp. 47-8. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 57. Bleiler (1978), p. 87. Reginald 06381.
OLGA ROMANOFF OR THE SYREN OF THE SKIES. A SEQUEL TO "THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION"...
London: Tower Publishing Company Limited, 1894. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [1] 2-377 [378-380: ads], errata slip pasted in between pages [viii] and [1], frontispiece by E. S. Hope, original pictorial olive-green silk-like cloth, front panel stamped in blue and black, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition, first issue with recto of title leaf dated 1894 and no inserted illustrations by Fred T. Jane. The year is 2030, 125 years after the end of THE ANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION. The defeated descendant of the Tsar of Russia, a villainess-Olga Romanoff, steals an airship from the ruling descendants of The Brotherhood of Freedom and she also obtains their secrets. She joins the current ruler of Islam and they plan to take revenge from the long ago defeat in the last war. Before a war is started the Earth comes under immanent danger from a cosmic cloud which will set the surface of the world aflame. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-85; (1981) 1-85; (1987) 1-42; (1995) 1-42; and (2004) II-465. Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, p. 76. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 930. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 369. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 20. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War (1992), p. 229. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 76. Locke, Voyages in Space 93. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, pp. 47-8. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 57. Bleiler (1978), p. 87. Reginald 06381.
WINTER'S CRIMES 2.
London: Macmillan, 1970. Octavo, boards. First edition. Original anthology, second in the series. Includes fiction by Eric Ambler, Christianna Brand, Elizabeth Ferrars, H.R.F. Keating and six others.
WINTER'S CRIMES 3.
[London]: Macmillan, [1971]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Original anthology. Includes fiction by Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie (a Mr. Quin story), Mary Kelly, Julian Symons and seven others.
FRIGHT.
New York: Rinehart & Co., 1950. Octavo, boards. First edition.
THE CONAN GRIMOIRE.
Baltimore, MD: The Mirage Press, 1972. Octavo, jacket illustration by Berni Wrightons, illustrations by Roy G. Krenkel, George Barr, Tim Kirk and others, cloth. First edition. 1500 copies printed. Essays and articles by Howard, Leiber, de Camp, Poul Anderson and others on heroic fantasy with emphasis on the writings of Robert E. Howard.
THE CONAN SWORDBOOK: 27 EXAMINATIONS OF HEROIC FICTION...
Baltimore, MD: The Mirage Press, 1969. Octavo, illustrations by Frank Frazetta, Roy Krenkel, Gray Morrow and others, cloth. First edition. 1500 copies printed. Essays and articles by Howard, Leiber, de Camp, Poul Anderson and others on heroic fantasy with emphasis on the writings of Robert E. Howard.
BICENTENNIAL TRIBUTE TO ROBERT E. HOWARD.
Yorba Linda, CA: George T. Hamilton, 1976. Octavo, jacket art by Stephen Fabian, wrappers. First edition. Includes several short article, an interview with Stephen Fabian, copies of letters to R.E.H., and a Howard short, "The Return of the Sorcerer."
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Spring 1977 to Jan.-Feb., 1978. (Volume 1, No. 1-Volume 2, No. 1). George H. Scithers (ed.).
New York: Davis Publications, Inc., 1977-78. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. The first four issues of the digest sized science fiction magazine. Fiction by Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, John Varley, Joan Vinge, and others.
THE STEPHEN KING COMPANION.
Kansas City, New York: Andrews and McMeel, [1989]. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition. Of 1000 copies signed by the editor, this copy is an overrun with no number.
THE QUAKER CITY; OR, THE MONKS OF MONK-HALL. A ROMANCE OF PHILADELPHIA LIFE, MYSTERY AND CRIME ...
Philadelphia: Published by the Author, and for Sale by All Booksellers, 1845. Small quarto, pp. [1] 2-494 [note: pages 5-314 are printed in double columns; pages 315-494 printed in a single column], inserted engraved frontispiece and engraved title leaf, mid-nineteenth century three-quarter pebbled calf and marbled boards, spine panel titled and ruled in gold, all edges marbled. First complete edition. A bibliographically complex book. Supposedly first published in ten paper-covered parts, but no complete set of parts published by G. B. Zieber exists. Examples of seven parts do exist. They are printed in double columns and paginated consecutively up to page 314. The following 180 pages of the published complete book are set in a single column and apparently had no previous parts publication. The edition in parts is dated 1844 on the title page, but a contract dated 31 March 1845 between Lippard and publisher G. B. Zieber indicates that Lippard was still writing the book. Before 5 May 1845 (the date of Lippard's introduction to this edition, which is also is copyright 1845), Lippard bought the existing plates and copyrights and commenced to reprint the book under his own name. According to Lippard, this edition was published in ten paper-covered parts and this copy appears to be bound from parts (evidence includes a bit of a blue wrapper adhered to the blind side of the frontispiece). Several one and two volume reprint editions were published by Lippard before Peterson of Philadelphia began publishing and reprinting his works in the 1840s. "... a handbook for Gothicism in all its most exaggerated forms." - Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 2-66. "Sensational expose novel in the manner of the French feuillleton novels (Sue and Hugo) and British counterparts. Crime and supernaturalism in early 19th century Philadelphia." - Bleiler, Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1027. "Lippard's sensational Philadelphia Gothic was first serialized in 1844-1845 and stands as a lurid example of the American Gothic spirit of the 1840s. Lippard allures and holds his readers by every repulsive means available. The result is a Gothic farrago of the Philadelphia underworld comparable to Victorian pulp Gothics. Monk Hall itself is an updated version of the infernal subterranean of the castle or abbey. Teeming with malicious creatures of every type and presided over by a crippled monster called Devilbug. Monk Hall also has a Gothic maiden-in-residence, Mabel Pyne. The plottings of Devilbug provide the occasion for live burials, necrophiliac love affairs, necromancy, satanic ritual, and other depravities embellished with nauseating scenes of Lippard's own. E. F. Bleiler's comment on the American Gothic extravaganza is severe but accurate: the novel is 'amusing in small doses, disgusting in large.' This judgment applies equally to Lippard's other Gothic endeavors, THE LADYE ANABEL; OR, THE DOOM OF THE POISONER (1844) and THE ENTRANCED; OR, THE WANDERER OF EIGHTEEN CENTURIES (1849)." - Frederick S. Frank, Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 1-95. Wright (I) 1689. BAL 11773. Roger Butterfield, "Lippard and His Secret Brotherhood," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, July 1955, pp. 285-309.
A SPECTRUM OF FANTASY: THE BIBLIOGRAPHY AND BIOGRAPHY OF A COLLECTION OF FANTASTIC LITERATURE.
[London]: Ferret, [1980]. Large octavo, boards. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. This private library catalogue is an essential source for information on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century science fiction and fantasy literature, especially British publications. Approximately 3100 books are described with full bibliographical particulars, including identification "points" for Locke's personal copies plus other editions, printings, issues and states where relevant. Locke provides notes indicating thematic content of each title, a valuable feature for collectors of "forgotten fantasy" as his collection includes many of uncommon and/or obscure early works not recorded elsewhere in such detail. Thematic emphasis of the collection is interplanetary fiction to 1914, future war fiction, lost race fiction, utopian literature, and supernatural fiction (the latter of special interest as Locke identifies fantasy tales published in single author collections of mixed stories). A major reference tool for collectors and researchers interested in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fantastic fiction. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 8-4. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002) 211.
THE FALSE GODS ...
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1906. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-91 [92: blank] [93-100: ads], four inserted plates with illustrations by J. C. Leyendecker, other illustrations in the text, original decorated brown cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, illustration by Leyendecker affixed to front panel. First edition. Reincarnation of Queen Nefruari in New York City. Lorimer, journalist, editor, publisher; editor-in-chief of the SATURDAY EVENING POST, 1899-1937, "satirizes both yellow journalism and a combination of Madame Blavatsky and Egyptology." - Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 519. Clareson, The Emergence of American Science Fiction: 1880-1915, p. 85n. Bleiler (1978), p. 126. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Hubin (194), p. 513. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 L-507.
H.P.L.: MEMOIRS, CRITIQUES & BIBLIOGRAPHIES.
North Tonawanda, New York: SSR Publications, 1955. Wrappers. First edition. 1/200 copies. The majority of this material in this volume was issued simultaneously as Volumes VI & VII of the LOVECRAFT COLLECTORS LIBRARY. Additions include Lin Carter's essay "HPL: THE HISTORY" & the full version of the introduction "THE RESEARCH OF A BIBLIO." Joshi III-C-27. "A landmark in Lovecraft bibliography..." "The foundation for all subsequent work in the field." - Joshi III-B-35.
SWOLLEN HEADED WILLIAM: PAINFUL STORIES AND FUNNY PICTURES AFTER THE GERMAN.
London: Metheun & Co., Ltd., nd. [1914]. Octavo, cloth. Later printing. Satire of the Germans and the Kaiser at the beginning of WW I. George Morrow was a cartoonist for Punch magazine. A popular book, it went through multiple printings in a two-week period.
PHANTASTES: A FAERIE ROMANCE FOR MEN AND WOMEN ...
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 65, Cornhill, 1858. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-323 [324: blank], original decorated olive green pebbled cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, cream endpapers, all edges untrimmed. First edition. Of the many binding variants possible for this book, this copy most closely resembles Wolff's copy II. The author's first prose book. A cornerstone of nineteenth-century fantastic literature. "An allegorical novel, strongly influenced by early nineteenth century German Romanticism, particularly Novalis, whom the author frequently quotes ... PHANTASTES is a sometimes brilliant, sometimes cloying story of great originality." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1066. "... a work of the most vivid imaginative power, serving as a -- perhaps the -- seminal work of modern fantasy. The tale presents an archetypal view of faeryland, where those who enter 'must go on, and go through it' ... MacDonald's place at the fountainhead of fantasy is not due solely to this work, but even if this were all that we had of him, it would assure him of a place among the great fantasists. His impact on Lewis is immeasurable ... and his influence on Carroll, Dunsany, Lindsay, Tolkien, Le Guin, and many, many more makes him a must for all readers of fantasy." - Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature: a Core Collection, pp. 131-132. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 124. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-116. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1066. Bleiler (ed), Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, pp. 240-41. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 146. Manlove, Modern Fantasy, pp. 55-98. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 701. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1241-45. Tymn (ed), Fantasy Literature, pp. 131-32. Waggoner, The Hills of Faraway 638. Bleiler (1978), p. 129. Reginald 09424. Sadleir 1479. Wolff 4296a. NCBEL III 945. Shaberman 8.