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Rosewater, Frank, writing as "Marian and Franklin Mayoe." DOOMED: A STARTLING MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE OF OUR DAY, INTERWOVEN IN AN ANTEDILUVIAN ROMANCE OF TWO OLD WORLDS AND TWO YOUNG LOVERS BY QUEEN METEL AND PRINCE LOAB OF ATLO, RE-INCARNATED IN ITS EDITORS, MARIAN AND FRANKLIN MAYOE [pseudonym]. New York: Frank Rosewater, Publisher, 1920. Octavo, pp. [i-ii] iii-vii [viii] [1-2] 3-282, five inserted plates with illustrations by R. Emmett Owen, publisher's brown cloth, front panel stamped in gold and blind, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition, first printing. Eccentric Atlantean novel by the author of four other utopian works (largely crank monetary theory) published between 1894 and 1925. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1467. Eichner, Atlantean Chronicles, p. 173. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 985. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 167. Bleiler (1978), p. 137. Reginald 12434. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 R-539. Private owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down. Some wear to cloth at spine ends and corner tips, small stain on front cover, narrow, faint stain to fore-edge margins of endpapers and plates, edges of text block a bit age-darkened, a very good copy. A rare book. (#179035).

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