THE DISK; A TALE OF TWO PASSIONS. Boston: Cupples, Upham and Company, 1884. 12mo, pp. [1-2] [1-2] 3-6 [7-8] 9-204 [205-206: blank], flyleaf at front, original pictorial red cloth, front and rear panels stamped in black, spine panel stamped in black and gold, light yellow endpapers. First edition. This variant, priority, if any, unknown, has a flyleaf inserted at front and no publisher's catalogue inserted at rear. "Inventions, adultery, and romance. Essentially a sexual melodrama of the period, to which science-fiction elements have been added ... The science-fiction elements are well-developed and imaginative, but the fictional vehicle leaves much to be desired." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1888. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 11. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 26. Bleiler (1978), p. 168. Reginald 12288 (listing a British edition). Wright (III) 4587. Cloth worn along 25 mm portion of bottom edge of rear cover near corner tip, binding a bit dusty, a very good copy. Actually, a better than average copy of this uncommon book which, for some reason, is generally found with its binding worn and soiled. (#77451).
Price: $225.00
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