THE CRYSTAL CITY UNDER THE SEA. Translated from the French ... by L. A. Smith ... New and Cheaper Edition. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company Limited, n.d. [1896]. Small octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [vii-viii] [1] 2-293 [294: printer's imprint] [295-296: blank] + 32-page undated publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, 22 inserted plates with illustrations by G. Roux, original pictorial blue-gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, plain endpapers. First edition in English. Science fiction romance in the mode of Jules Verne. An old man and his daughter, the last survivors of Atlantis, are found in a crystal-domed city beneath the Atlantic. Originally published in French as ATLANTIS in 1895. Bleiler, Science Fiction: The Early Years 1283. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 134. Teitler and Locke, By the World Forgot (2013) 733. Bleiler (1978), p. 119. Reginald 08705. Spine lean, cloth lightly rubbed at spine ends and corner tips, 20 pence price inked out on front front free endpaper, a very good copy. (#165317).
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