A VOYAGE TO THE MOON. New York: Doubleday and McClure Co, MDCCCXCIX [1899]. Small octavo, pp. [i-iii] iv [v-vii] viii-xxvii [xxviii] xxix-xxx 1-219 [220: blank], five inserted plates, one facsimile in the text, title page printed in orange and black, orpublisher'siginal decorated green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First printing of this edition. The text of this edition, edited with an introduction and note on the translation by Curtis Hidden Page, follows the text of A. Lovell's translation first published in 1687. "A remarkable book that deserves wider readership than it has received." - Bleiler, Science Fiction: The Early Years 542. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 1-12; (1981) 1-52; (1987) 1-12; (1995) 1-12; and (2004) II-295. Bleiler (1948), p. 91. A bright, nearly fine copy. (#172227).
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