"WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD" AND OTHER TALES OF THE SEA. New York: Published by The Century Co., MDCCCXCIX [1899]. Octavo, pp. [1-12] 1-302, publisher's pictorial medium blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in white and black, all edges trimmed. First edition. Robertson's second collection of short fiction. Collects eleven stories including "The Battle of the Monsters," "Primordial" (according to Bleiler, "probably a source for Tarzan"), and other science fiction and fantasy tales. A book on the "expanded list" of J. K. Lilly's "89 Good Novels of the Sea." Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1880. Bleiler (1978), p. 168. Not in Reginald. Hubin (1994), p. 689. Wright (III) 4579. Spine panel darkened, cloth lightly worn at spine ends and corner tips, a couple of mild stains to cloth, faint tide marks at gutter margins of several preliminary leaves, a sound, good to very good copy. (#176625).
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