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A COLUMBUS OF SPACE.
New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1911. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii-x] 1-297 [298],four inserted plates with illustrations by Howard Heath four inserted plates with illustrations by Howard Heath, original pictorial light green cloth, front panel stamped in black, dark green and white, spine panel stamped in white and black. First edition. First printing with code "(1)" at base of text on page [298]. Interplanetary adventure novel of travel by atomic powered spaceship to Venus inhabited by people and monsters. A minor science fiction classic combining high adventure in the Haggard tradition with the science fantasy of Wells and Verne. First published in ALL-STORY MAGAZINE in 1909, the novel was revised for book publication. Bleiler: Science-Fiction: The Early Years #1997.
A COLUMBUS OF SPACE.
New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1911. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii-x] 1-297 [298],four inserted plates with illustrations by Howard Heath four inserted plates with illustrations by Howard Heath, original pictorial light green cloth, front panel stamped in black, dark green and white, spine panel stamped in white and black. First edition. Interplanetary adventure novel of travel by atomic powered spaceship to Venus inhabited by people and monsters. A minor science fiction classic combining high adventure in the Haggard tradition with the science fantasy of Wells and Verne. First published in ALL-STORY MAGAZINE in 1909, the novel was revised for book publication. Bleiler: Science-Fiction: The Early Years #1997.
A COLUMBUS OF SPACE.
New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1911. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii-x] 1-297 [298],four inserted plates with illustrations by Howard Heath four inserted plates with illustrations by Howard Heath, original pictorial light green cloth, front panel stamped in black, dark green and white, spine panel stamped in white and black. First edition. Interplanetary adventure novel of travel by atomic powered spaceship to Venus inhabited by people and monsters. A minor science fiction classic combining high adventure in the Haggard tradition with the science fantasy of Wells and Verne. First published in ALL-STORY MAGAZINE in 1909, the novel was revised for book publication. Bleiler: Science-Fiction: The Early Years #1997.
THE MOON METAL.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1900. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 1-163 [164], original decorated blue cloth, front panel stamped in white, light green, and silver, spine panel stamped in white. First edition. The author's first novel published in book form. A scientist supplies a new metal which replaces gold as the world monetary standard. It is discovered that this metal comes from the Moon. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 1-148. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 681. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 26. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 192. Locke, Voyages in Space 190. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 81. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 177. Reginald 12902. Wright (III) 4869.
THE MOON METAL.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1900. Small octavo, pp. [1-4] 1-163 [164], original decorated blue cloth, front panel stamped in white, light green, and silver, spine panel stamped in white. First edition. The second of four science fiction novels by Serviss, the first to be published as a book. Basically, a catastrophe novel. Following the discovery of a rare metal that replaces gold as the world's monetary standard human greed reduces the moon to rubble and the earth narrowly escapes destruction. "Serviss's best story." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1996. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 1-148. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 681. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 26. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 192. Locke, Voyages in Space 190. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 81. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 177. Reginald 12902. Wright (III) 4869.
THE SECOND DELUGE.
New York: McBride, Nast & Company, 1912. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1-2] 3-399 [400-402: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], four inserted plates with illustrations by George Varian, original green cloth, front panel stamped in white and ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in white. First edition. The author's best novel and one of the best early treatments of the natural catastrophe theme. "... in American science fiction, the catastrophe motif did not assume its fully developed form until the publication of Garrett P. Serviss's The Second Deluge..." - Clareson, The Emergence of American Science Fiction: 1880-1915, pp. 303-06. "One of Serviss's better stories. Heavily in the tradition of Jules Verne, it is vividly imagined, and if there are occasional concessions to pulp simplistics, they are not offensive." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1999. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-136; (1981) 1-149; (1987) 1-83; (1995) 1-83; and (2004) II-979. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 682. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 42. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 192. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 177. Reginald 12903.