POSEIDON'S PARADISE: THE ROMANCE OF ATLANTIS. San Francisco: The Clemens Publishing Co., 1892. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-4] 5-305 [306: blank] [note: leaf preceding title leaf is frontispiece map], two plans in text, original maroon cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, floral patterned endpapers. First edition. Issued in cloth and in wrappers, this being one of the former. "... the earliest pseudo-historical novel by an American to use Atlantis as a setting." - Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 076. Clareson, The Emergence of American Science Fiction: 1880-1915, pp. 180-81. Eichner, Atlantean Chronicles, p. 140. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 34. Teitler and Locke, By the World Forgot (2013) 129. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 23. Reginald 01332. Not in Wright. Cloth a bit rubbed at spine ends and corner tips, spine panel a trifle sunned, a very good copy. (#152361).
Price: $250.00
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