HELIONDE; OR, ADVENTURES IN THE SUN ... Third Edition. London: Frederick Warne & Co., Bedford Street, Covent Garden, 1866. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [xi] xii-xiv [xv] xvi-xx [xxi] xxii-xxiv [1] 2-424, original decorated blue cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, front and rear panels stamped in blind, edges untrimmed, yellow coated endpapers. Third edition, possibly comprising sheets of the first printing with new preliminary matter. First published by Chapman and Hall in 1855. "Visionary romance whose hero finds the Sun inhabited by beautiful ethereal people; he falls in love there but ultimately must return to Earth. A slightly sickly dream of paradise." - Barron, ed., Fantasy Literature 2-156. Whiting's HELIONDÉ, dedicated to the Scottish scientist Sir David Brewster, "received numerous reviews in the press and was highly praised for its scholarly and uniquely imaginative qualities." - Howgego, Encyclopedia of Exploration: Invented and Apocryphal Narratives of Travel W10. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2377. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 231. Locke, Voyages in Space (2011) V695. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 1187. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 53. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 12. Bleiler (1978), p. 208. Reginald 15279A. Bookplate of fantastic fiction collector William Harry Hopkins affixed to the front paste-down. Cloth worn, scuffed and spotted, a sound reading copy of a scarce book. (#168555).
Price: $150.00
"THIRD EDITION" on title page.