THE MAN FROM MARS OR SERVICE, FOR SERVICE'S SAKE. New York: Cochrane Publishing Company, 1910. Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-385 [386-388: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece, original pictorial light blue-gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in white, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. "Life on Mars, experienced during a two-month cataleptic trance, is described during the course of a leisurely tour of Europe." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 71. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 604. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 260. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 56. Locke, Voyages in Space 68. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 148. Bleiler (1978), p. 63. Reginald 04483. Not in Negley. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-125 D 522. Cloth rubbed at head and tail of spine panel and corner tips, several faint stains to spine panel, a tight, very good copy. An attractive copy of an uncommon book rarely found in nice condition. (#20207).
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