(#165782) ANOTHER WORLD; OR FRAGMENTS FROM THE STAR CITY OF MONTALLUYAH. By Hermes [pseudonym]. Hermes, Benjamin Lumley.

ANOTHER WORLD; OR FRAGMENTS FROM THE STAR CITY OF MONTALLUYAH. By Hermes [pseudonym]. London: Samuel Tinsley, 1873. Octavo, pp. [i-iii] iv-xxii [xxiii] xxiv-xxx [1] 2-306, original decorated brown bevel-edged cloth, all panels stamped in gold and black, top and fore edges untrimmed, bottom edge trimmed, slate coated endpapers. First edition. "A description of life, civilization and technology on another planet, deduced by the 'editor' to be Mars; presented in the form of the autobiography of the ruler of the planet, the man responsible for it attaining its present utopian state." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 111. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1090. Locke, Voyages in Space (2011) V 363. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 711. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 61. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, pp. 16-17. Bleiler (1978), p. 98. Reginald 09313. Cloth lightly worn at spine ends and corner tips, several light stains on front cover, small remnant of a label on the spine panel, partial hairline crack along inner front hinge (still holding tight), a sound, good copy. Better than most extant copies. (#165782).

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