ZARLAH THE MARTIAN. New York: R. F. Fenno & Company, [1909]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-194 [note: title leaf is a cancel tipped in on a stub], inserted frontispiece, title page printed in red and black, original red cloth, front panel stamped in gold and ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Visual communication is established with an advanced civilization on Mars and a human spirit is scientifically transferred into the body of one of the Martian inhabitants. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 956. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 372. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 99. Locke, Voyages in Space 94. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 473. Kopp 825. Not in Lewis (1984) or Sargent (1988). Bleiler (1978), p. 88. Reginald 06417. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 G-544. Hanna, A Mirror for the Nation 1509. Publisher's inscription to "Mr. Taylor" on the front free endpaper. Bookplate of pioneer F&SF collector William Harry Hopkins affixed to the front free endpaper. Cloth worn at lower spine end and lower corner tips, upper spine end and upper corner tips rubbed, gold lettering on spine panel dull, tiny stain at top edge of front paste-down and another at top edge of front free endpaper, several stains to text pages, a sound, good copy. (#165772).
Price: $100.00
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