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Rhodes, W[illiam] H[enry]. THE CASE OF SUMMERFIELD ... With an Introduction by Geraldine Bonner. San Francisco and New York: Paul Elder & Company, [1907]. Small octavo, pp. [1-8] i-vi [vii-viii] 1-54 [55: blank] [56: colophon] [57-62: blank] [note: first three and last three leaves are blanks], inserted frontispiece with photogravure after an oil painting by Galen J. Perrett, original bevel-edged brown boards with white paper vellum spine panel, front and spine panels stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First separate edition. 1000 copies printed by John Henry Nash. This copy is signed by the printer on the front free endpaper. A deluxe printing of Rhodes' genre classic "The Case of Summerfield," first published in the SACRAMENTO DAILY UNION, 13 May 1871 and later collected CAXTON'S BOOK: A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS, POEMS, TALES AND SKETCHES BY THE LATE W. H. RHODES, a posthumous literary miscellany published in 1876. Anthony Boucher reprinted this story in the summer 1950 issue of the MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, terming Rhodes "in this and other stories one of the great pioneers of modern science fiction." Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-129; (1981) 1-141; (1987) 1-78; and (1995) 1-78. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1862a. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 648. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 182. Moskowitz, Science Fiction in Old San Francisco Volume I: History of the Movement from 1854 to 1890, pp. 43-61. Bleiler (1978), p. 166. Reginald 12193. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 2093. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with small chip from lower spine end and rubbed cardboard slipcase. (#130442).

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