THE HOPKINS MANUSCRIPT. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1939. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-352, original medium blue cloth, spine panel stamped in dark blue. First edition. A classic catastrophe novel depicting survival after the earth is struck by the moon. "A superior work." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-341. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 4-517; (1981) 3-666; and (2004) II-1002. Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, pp. 175-76. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 75. Gerber, Utopian Fantasy (1973), p. 154. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 194. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, p. 248. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 178. Reginald 13020. Slight spine lean, top edge of text block dusty, else a clean, tight, very good copy in very good printed dust jacket with light wear at head and tail of spine panel and corner tips, dust soiling, and age-darkening to spine panel and along flap folds. (#105265).
Price: $250.00
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