THE MAN WHO MASTERED TIME. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1929. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-351 [352-358: blank] [note: last three leaves are blanks], original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Travel by time machine to Earth's far future. "THE MAN WHO MASTERED TIME completes the trilogy of my tales of Matter, Space, and Time [THE GIRL IN THE GOLDEN ATOM and "The Fire People" dealing with the first two matters, respectively]." - Ray Cummings (from foreword to a later appearance in FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES). Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 2-24. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 516. Clareson, Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 226. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 63. Sargent, American and British Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 185. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p.54. Reginald 03693. Top edge of text block dusty, else a fine copy in bright, very good four-color pictorial dust jacket (reproducing a superb color painting by Allen St. John on the front panel) with light wear at spine ends and corner tips, three short closed tears in front panel with internal tape mends, short closed tear at top edge of rear panel, and some dust soiling to rear panel. (#161270).
Price: $1,000.00
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