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THE HANDS OF ORLAC ... Translated and Adapted by Florence Crewe-Jones.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., [1929]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-337 [338-344: blank] [note: last three leaves are blanks], original purple cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First edition in English. Renard, "generally regarded in France as the most important native SF writer for the period 1900-1930, best known in English for his SF novel LES MAINS D'ORLAC (1920) ... The story deals in Gothic terms with the ominous consequences of a hand transplant." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 1003. "Classic macabre murder mystery ..." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 4-125. The basis of several films, including "Mad Love" (1935), featuring Peter Lorre and Colin Clive. [Reference: Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1856. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 182. Bleiler (1948), p. 233. Reginald 12140. Hubin (1994), p. 674].
NEW BODIES FOR OLD OR THE STRANGE EXPERIMENTS OF DR. LERNE.
New York: The Macaulay Co., 1923. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. This is the first edition in English (translated from the French). Renard was the author of many science fiction books which have not been translated. "According to Versins (author of Encyclopedie de L'Utopie et de la Science Fiction) the most significant French writer in the science fiction genre between the Victorians and the moderns" (from: Bleiler-Science Fiction, The Early Years, #1855). Biological science fiction.
NEW BODIES FOR OLD.
New York: The Macaulay Company, [1923]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi [vii-viii] [vii (a)-viii (a)] 9-308 [309-310: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original olive green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, all edges stained green. First edition in English. The author's first and best novel, first published in 1908 as LE DOCTEUR LERNE. Renard "...stands out as one of the most original authors to emerge at the beginning of the twentieth century... LE DOCTEUR LERNE impresses the reader with its up-to-date flavor and topicality. In his best pages, Maurice Renard comes across as someone far ahead of his time, someone who could be called a science fiction visionary." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 560-63. "...a major step toward a recognizable, modern science fiction..." - Anatomy of Wonder (1981), p. 13. "...generally regarded in France as the most important native SF writer for the period 1900-1930..." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, p. 1003. [Reference: Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1855. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 646. Bleiler (1978), p. 165. Reginald 12141].