DIE REISE ZUR VENUS. PHANTASTISCHE ZUKUNFTSERZAHLUNG. Dresden: Verlag Hans Friedrich Abshagen, n.d. [1930]. Octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-162 [163] [164: ads], four inserted plates with color illustrations by Karl Mühlmeister, original pictorial cream cloth, printed in orange and blue. First edition in German. Translation by Antje Hering from the Danish of a utopian Burroughs-type interplanetary novel set on Venus. An inventor builds a spaceship, the Urania, and travels to Venus, where he discovers a prehistoric world with saurians and humans. Lovely illustrations and cover art; the four-color frontispiece is worthy of comparison to the work of J. Allen St. John. "The deeply conservative, pro-Nazi, and highly prolific Danish (author) wrote science fictional adventures for children in the 1920s and 1930s under numerous pseudonyms (Anderson, pp. 2-3). Bloch (2002) 2136. Nagl, p. 258. See also Neils Dalgaard, Guide til Fantastisk Litteratur (2001). Bookplate of A. R. Michaelis affixed to the front paste-down. Cloth dusty, spine lettering faded, front free endpaper missing, a sound, good copy. (#162909).
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