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, original black cloth, front panel ruled in blind and stamped in gold, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Eccentric Atlantean novel by the author of four other utopian works (largely crank monetary theory) published between 1894 and 1925. "Manuscripts preserved in a metal tube tell this tale of antediluvian history. On a journey to see the world, a Phoenician prince lands in Atlantis. Here he finds love and battles the hideous 'Goro-goros,' a subhuman race. Meanwhile, his love has journeyed to the east and become the captive queen of an underground country called 'Omshala.' Later they are reunited, and Atlantis sinks into the sea." - The Stuart Teitler Collection of Lost Race Fiction. p. 191. 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. Upper spine end lightly bumped, small bookseller's ink stamp and price in colored pencil on front paste-down, else a clean, bright, nearly fine copy. A rare book. (#179149).
Price: $850.00
"Published Oct. - Nov., 1920" on copyright page.