SCIENCE FICTION BY THE RIVALS OF H. G. WELLS. [Secaucus, N. J. Castle Books, 1979.]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects twenty-five short stories published between 1895 and 1906 by Grant Allen, Cutcliffe Hyne, Jack London, Fred M. White and others as well as George Griffith's six-part serial "Stories of Other Worlds" revised for book publication as HONEYMOON IN SPACE (1901). The stories are offset from illustrated texts first published in contemporary middlebrow Victorian and Edwardian British magazines. "The paranoid attitude of the vast majority of the stories toward any and all change and innovation emphasizes by contrast the exceptional openness of H. G. Wells's mind before its ambitions were ground down by the dismal expectations of this conservative audience." - Brian Stableford (AW). Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1389. Just a hint of foxing to top and fore edges of text block, else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#140226).
Price: $35.00
"April 1979" on copyright page.