A PLUNGE INTO SPACE ... Second Edition, with a Preface by Jules Verne. Westport, Connecticut: Hyperion Press, Inc., [1976]. Octavo, frontispiece and illustrated title, cloth. First U.S. edition. Journey to Mars via steel globe, "motivated by insulating it from Earth's gravity" (Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 61). Martian civilization is utopian but in decline. A historically important interplanetary novel bridging Verne and Wells. "Much sentimentality, but historically interesting, halfway position between Verne ... and Wells." - Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 41. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-53; (1981) 1-50; and (2004) II-288. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 505. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 214. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 49. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 61. Locke, Voyages in Space, 56. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 84. Bleiler (1978), p. 53. Reginald 03637. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#176704).
Price: $100.00
"Hyperion reprint edition 1976" on copyright page.