(#127547) BRIGANDS OF THE MOON. Ra Cummings.
BRIGANDS OF THE MOON.

BRIGANDS OF THE MOON. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co. Publishers, 1931. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-386 [387-392: blank] [note: last three leaves are blanks], original orange cloth, front panel stamped in black and blind, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. An interplanetary novel first published as a four-part serial in ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION, March - June 1930. "This work and its sequel, WANDL THE INVADER (1932; book, 1961), are good examples of Cummings' better and worse pulp writing habits: heavy plotting, shallow writing, and pseudo-science are the dominant elements. This novel involves a space mutiny, valuable radium deposits, space battles, and space pirates, and inevitably a happy ending with a victorious hero." - Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-15. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-293. Bleiler, Everett and Richard Bleiler, Science Fiction: The Gernsback Years 297. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 224. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, pp. 62-3. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 54. Reginald 03688. Some spotting to page edges, a nearly fine copy in very good four-color pictorial dust jacket (with illustration by J. Allen St. John) with mild wear to edges and mild dust soiling to rear panel, light vertical crease to spine panel, author, and title lettering on the spine quite faded. (#127547).

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