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THE GODDESS OF ATVATABAR: BEING THE HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE INTERIOR WORLD AND CONQUEST OF ATVATABAR ...
New York: J. F. Douthitt, 1892. Large octavo, pp. [1-5] 6 [7] 8 [9] 10-318 [319: blank] [320: ad], flyleaves at front and rear, frontispiece, 45 illustrations by C. Durand Chapman and others, original bevel-edged green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, white endpapers with floral pattern printed in green. First edition, first binding. "A bizarre, often grotesque, fairy tale of science ..." - Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, p. 66. An ambitious lost race novel based on Symmes' theory of concentric spheres. Among the more lavish nineteenth century American SF novels, but perhaps of most interest for its introduction by Julian Hawthorne that "denounces Zola and the literary naturalists, predicting that the future of literature lies with such romances as Bradshaw's." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-14. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 3-15. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-21. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 270. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 255. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 091. Howgego, Encyclopedia of Exploration: Invented and Apocryphal Narratives of Travel B44. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 39. Roemer, The Obsolete Necessity, p. 192. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 93. Teitler and Locke, By the World Forgot (2013) 147. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 29. Reginald 01810. Wright (III) 648.
MR. POLTON EXPLAINS.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1940. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. A Dr. Thorndyke mystery.
THE MYSTERY OF ANGELINA FROOD.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1925. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-312 [313-314: blank], original violet cloth front stamped in yellow and blind, spine stamped in yellow. First U.S. edition. A Dr. Thorndyke mystery novel. This novel is somewhat ahead of it's time as it concerns spousal (wife) abuse.
THE UTTERMOST FARTHING.
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, Publishers, [1914]. Octavo. pp. [1-4] 5 [6] 7 [8] 9-296, frontispiece and 3 inserted illustrations by H. Weston Taylor, original dark red cloth stamped in gold and black to front and spine. First edition. A tale of murder and revenge. Not published in the U.K. until 1920 as "A Savant's Vendetta". Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 383-384.