TO THE POLES BY AIRSHIP OR AROUND THE WORLD ENDWAYS. Los Angeles, Cal. Baumgardt Publishing Co., 1909. Octavo, pp. [1-13] 14-108 [109] [110-112: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], inserted frontispiece (photographic portrait of the author), one illustration in text (diagram of the airship), original green cloth, front panel stamped in white. First edition. Eccentric speculative essay on political, social and religious concerns of the period within the framework of six-day circumnavigation of earth by the "New Era," an advanced airship. "Includes a eutopia after Armageddon." - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 147. "... deserves notice because it reinforces so many ideas of the period." - Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 827. Bleiler (1978), p. 212. Reginald 15639. Smith, American Literature, 1901-1925 W-905. A few marks to cloth (probably a bit of insect tracking), a very good copy. A nice copy of a very scarce book. (#137411).
Price: $450.00
No statement of printing on copyright page; second printing (1910) has "second edition" on title page.