Adeler, Max (pseudonym of Charles Heber Clark) and Others. AN OLD FOGEY AND OTHER STORIES. London: Ward, Lock, & Co., n.d. [circa 1888]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-372 [373-376: ads], illustrations by Arthur B. Frost and others, original pictorial bevel-edged blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, t.e.g. Later printing. Advertisements at rear include A STUDY IN SCARLET which Ward, Lock published in 1888. Collects five stories, "The City of Burlesque," "An Old Fogey," "Major Dunwoody's Leg," "Professor Baffin's Adventures" (retitled "The Fortunate Island") and "'Jinnie,'" and a play "Her Second Husband. A Comedy in Three Acts." Bleiler comments that "The Fortunate Island" is an "excellent lost race science-fiction story... which offers a foretaste of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." The five stories were collected in THE FORTUNATE ISLAND, AND OTHER STORIES published in the U.S. in 1882 by Charles T. Dillingham. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-1. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 4. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 11. See Topp II, 1458. See Wright (III) 1051. A bright, near fine copy. (#113049)