NONSENSE NOVELS. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1941. Octavo, original terra cotta cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. Later edition. First published in 1911. Parodies of popular fiction authors and styles of the day. "Maddened by Mystery; or, The Defective Detective" is a burlesque of Sherlock Holmes. Stories bearing on the fantastic include "'Q.' A Psychic Pstory of the Psupernatural," "Sorrows of a Super Soul: or, The Memoirs of Marie Mushenough," and "The Man in Asbestos: an Allegory of the Future." Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1288. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Bleiler (1978), p. 120. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 64. Hubin (1994), p. 489. Gold lettering dulled, else a very good copy. (#115785).
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