EDISON'S CONQUEST OF MARS ... With an Introduction by A. Langley Searles, Ph. D. Los Angeles: Carcosa House, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 1500 numbered copies. Posthumously published as a book, but actually the author's first science fiction novel, first printed as a newspaper serial in 1898. Apparently intended as a sequel to Wells's THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, wherein earth attacks and occupies Mars. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-134; (1981) 1-147; (1987) 1-82; and (1995) 1-82. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1995. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 680. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 192. Survey of of Science Fiction Literature II, pp. 698-702. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 177. Reginald 12901. A fine copy in good dust jacket which is chipped and has been laid down on stiff paper. According to the publisher, most copies were distributed without the dust jacket. (#175079).
Price: $100.00
First edition so stated on copyright page.