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This trilogy publisher between 1912-14 tells the story of two modern people who awake 1000 years after the earth was devastated by a meteor and rebuild civilisation.
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George Allan England (1877 – 1937) was an American writer and explorer, best known for his speculative and science fiction. He attended Harvard University and later in life unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Maine. England was a socialist and many of his works have socialist themes.
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Darkness and Dawn (Hyperion Classics of Science Fiction)
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Hyperion, Westport, Conn, 1974
ISBN 10: 088355108X
ISBN 13: 9780883551080
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Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Reprint. Hardcover in gray cloth stamped in black. Fine (bookplate front pastedown and a copy of the original 1914 NY Times review of the book tipped onto the front free endpaper. Issued without dust jacket 672 pp. Illustrated. Reissue of the original 1914 edition, with an added introductory essay by the author "The Fantastic In Fiction". A compilation of three interwoven novellas written between 1912 and 1914 and published the latter year. They are post-apocalyptic tales featuring three people who have apparently slept for over 1000 years and survived whatever disaster enveloped Earth. They are faced with The Hoard, a Morlock-like race of hominids. Seller Inventory # E25699
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Darkness and Dawn
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Westport: Hyperion Press 1974 Facsimile Edition 8vo (xviii),672pp ill. ISBN 0-88355-108-X, 1974
ISBN 10: 088355108X
ISBN 13: 9780883551080
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Seller: N & A Smiles, Kellerberrin, WA, Australia
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine original grey cloth, no DW as issued, bookplate on front pastedown. This edition contains an added introductory essay by the author, "The Fantastic in Fiction", published originally in the July 1923 issue of The Story World under the title"Facts About Fantasy.". Seller Inventory # 8969
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DARKNESS AND DAWN . With an Added Introductory Essay by the Author "The Fantastic in Fiction."
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Hyperion Press, Westport, Connecticut, 1974
ISBN 10: 088355108X
ISBN 13: 9780883551080
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Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
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Octavo, illustrations by P. J. Monahan, gray cloth printed in black. Later edition. An important early American science fiction novel utilizing the catastrophe motif first published as serials in Cavalier in 1912 and 1913. Text offset from that of the 1914 Small, Maynard and Company edition. The Hyperion edition adds an article by England originally published in the July 1923 issue of THE STORY WORLD as "Facts About Fantasy." Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-73; (1981) 1-67; (1987) 1-33; (1995) 1-33; and (2004) II-383. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 673. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 283. Lewis, Utopian Literature, pp. 58-9. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 79. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 484-87. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 79. Reginald 04904. Page edges just a bit tanned, else a fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#173665). Seller Inventory # 173665
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