DISTANT WORLDS: THE STORY OF A VOYAGE TO THE PLANETS. Translated from the German by Max Shachtman. New York, London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi [vii-viii] 1-343 [344: blank], four inserted plates with illustrations by Robert A. Graef, original orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained black, fore edge untrimmed. First edition in English. Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel translated into English. WUNDERERWELTEN (1911) is a boys' book that "takes its spaceship crew to Mars and finally, at several times the speed of light, to Alpa Centauri, where they explore an Eden-like planet. Its content is quite advanced for 1911, but it is ill written." – Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 762. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1428. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 149. Bleiler (1978), p. 132. Reginald 09541. See Bloch (2002) 2021. A very good copy. (#161763).
Price: $75.00
First printing has "A" and Scribner seal on copyright page.