Item #25514 SAURUS. Eden Phillpotts.

SAURUS.

London: John Murray, [1938]. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-281 [282: blank] [283: biographical note on Phillpotts] [284-286: ads] [287-288: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original light brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in dark brown. First edition, later binding. "A spaceship from another world contains an egg that hatches into an intelligent lizard. This was the first story that attempted to use an alien visitor as an objective observer to comment on the state of contemporary human civilization, and is rather more sympathetic than most work in this vein." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-98. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 2-81; (1987) 2-90; and (2004) II-850. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 73. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, 176. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, pp. 271-72. Survey of Science Fiction Literature IV, pp. 1866-70. Bleiler (1978), p. 158. Reginald 11489. A very good to nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with mild shelf wear to corner tips and spine ends, tiny 8 mm closed tear to upper front panel. (25514). Item #25514

Price: $125.00

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