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COSMOS (SERIAL NOVEL).
[Jamaica, New York: Conrad H. Ruppert, 1933-1935.]. Octavo, seventeen parts plus preliminaries, the parts and the two preliminary leaves professionally bound in black cloth. First edition. COSMOS, a legendary collaborative novel by eighteen authors, was published in seventeen parts as supplements to SCIENCE FICTION DIGEST (later FANTASY MAGAZINE), July 1933–January 1935. In order of appearance, contributors were Ralph Milne Farley, David G. Keller, Arthur J. Burks, Bob Olsen, Frances Flagg, John W. Campbell, Rae Winters, Otis Adelbert Kline and E. Hoffmann Price, Abner J. Gelula, Raymond A. Palmer, A. Merritt, J. Harvey Haggard, Edward E. Smith, P. Schuyler Miller, Lloyd A. Eshbach, Eando Binder, and Edmond Hamilton. The title page (designed by Hannes Bok) and table of contents were printed with the final issue. In 1946 Sam Moskowitz estimated that only thirty complete sets of COSMOS existed. [Reference: Moskowitz, The Immortal Storm (1974), p. 16. Pavlat and Evans, Fanzine Index (1965), p. 19].
ALLAN QUATERMAIN: BEING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS FURTHER ADVENTURES AND DISCOVERIES IN COMPANY WITH SIR HENRY CURTIS, BART., COMMANDER JOHN GOOD, R.N. AND ONE UMSLOPOGAAS ...
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887. Large octavo, pp. [i-ix] x [xi] xii [1] 2-335 [336] [note: Scott counts frontispiece and flyleaves as part of his collation of preliminary and terminal leaves but the former is inserted and not an integral part of gathering (A) and the latter are not part of gatherings (A) or Y], flyleaves at front and rear, twenty inserted plates with mounted illustrations by C. H. M. Kerr printed on India paper, other illustrations (also printed on India paper) affixed to text leaves, title leaf printed in orange and black, original brown pebbled cloth with brown morocco shelf back, spine lettered in gold, vertical gold rules on front and rear panels, green and gold marbled endpapers, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. One of 112 numbered copies comprising the special issue on large paper (this is copy number 62). "The lost-race novel par excellence, setting up many of the motifs and fictional patterns that became an integral part of the subgenre ... As fiction, one of Haggard's more successful works ... Historically, of course, it is one of the most important nineteenth-century works of popular fiction." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 973. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-86; (1981) 1-87; (1987) 1-44; and (1995) 1-44. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 377. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 101. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature, pp. 22-5. Bleiler (1978), p. 89. Reginald 06520. Wolff 2839. Scott 7A. Whatmore F6.6.a].
THE PEOPLE OF THE MIST.
London: Longmans & Co., 1894. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
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London: The Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd., n.d., [c. late 1920s]. Small octavo, original decorated maroon boards, front and spine panels stamped in gold. Later printing. Popular mass reprint edition. This edition of the title includes a two page editor's note commenting on the death of Haggard (May 14, 1925) and some biographical and bibliographical information. The Readers Library was established in 1924 to bring well known novels at the cheapest price to readers.