Item #25509 THE END OF A WORLD. Translated from the French by Jeffery E. Jeffery. Claude Anet, Jean Schopfer.

THE END OF A WORLD. Translated from the French by Jeffery E. Jeffery.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-2] 3-268 [269: colophon] [270: blank] [note: title leaf mounted on a stub], illustrations, title page printed in brown and black, original decorated yellow cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and green, publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel, top edge stained green, decorated endpapers. First edition in English. Prehistoric romance recording the last cycle in the history of a community of the Cro-Magnon period. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-4. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 41. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 015. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 21 (recording a copy of the British issue). The Stuart Teitler Collection of Lost Race Fiction, p. 5. Bleiler (1978), p. 5. Reginald 00340. A fine copy in a very good pictorial dust jacket with small closed tears with creases to upper front panel, closed tear with crease and small chip at lower right front corner, 22 mm closed tear at lower left spine edge, shallow loss to spine ends. (25509). Item #25509

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