About, Edmond Francois Valentin. THE MAN WITH THE BROKEN EAR. Translated from the French... by Henry Holt. New York: Leypoldt & Holt, 1867. 12mo, pp. [1-6] [1] 2-254 [255: blank] [256-260: ads] [261-262: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, slate coated endpapers. First U.S. edition. A French officer in Napoleon's army is revived after many years in a coma (which was aided by a German scientist). Upon being revived he is eventually not able to cope with the world he awakens to. Translation of L'Homme a l'Oreille Cassee (1862). SF novel in which a colonel of the army of Napoleon Bonaparte awakens after a scientifically induced sleep of forty-six years as a subject of Louis Napoleon. "Amusing reading, with many good little touches."– Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 4. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 18. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1340-43. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 20. Bleiler (1978), p. 1. Reginald 00012 Half title leaf missing, some light foxing, corners soft, light wear to extremities, wear with some small tears to spine ends, a good copy. (#125824)