(#156217) THOMAS BOOBIG: A COMPLETE ENOUGH ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND SINGULAR DISAPPEARANCE. Luther Marshall.
THOMAS BOOBIG: A COMPLETE ENOUGH ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND SINGULAR DISAPPEARANCE ...

THOMAS BOOBIG: A COMPLETE ENOUGH ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND SINGULAR DISAPPEARANCE. Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, [1895]. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii-viii [1] 2-349 [350: blank], original pictorial gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, plain white endpapers. First edition. Science fiction with utopian theme. A pioneer treatment of the superman theme, wherein a youth grows in size and intellect to gigantic proportions. He contributes much to the welfare of the world before he mysteriously disappears. Boobig is a sort of folkloric proto-Paul Bunyan-type character. Bleiler (1978), p. 134. Reginald 09710. Wright (III) 3614. Mild wear to cloth along lower edges, some light soiling to front cover, a very good copy. (#156217).

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