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. 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. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 2. 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. Old lending library label affixed to front paste-down. Some bubbling of cloth on front cover, a bright, tight, very good copy. (#90059)