Manna
GLOAG, John
Published by Cassell & Company
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Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Rare. First Edition. No dust jacket. Rebound ex-library copy with the usual stamps/stickers. Minor wear to red cloth boards. A tan to the page edges. Contents remain clear and firm throughout. A bright, sturdy example overall. Seller Inventory # mon0024988200
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Title: Manna
Publisher: Cassell & Company
Condition: Good
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Manna
Published by
Cassell & Company
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Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Rare. First Edition. No dust jacket. Rebound ex-library copy with the usual stamps/stickers. Minor wear to red cloth boards. A tan to the page edges. Contents remain clear and firm throughout. A bright, sturdy example overall. Seller Inventory # mon0024988200
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Manna.
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Cassell, London., 1940
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
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First edition. Octavo. pp [viii], 280. Speculative fiction concerning the not wholly beneficial discovery of a fungus that would end human hunger.Edges faintly spotted. Near fine in very good indeed, slightly nicked dustwrapper with a strikingly designed pattern of mushroom motifs. Seller Inventory # GLOAGJOH014414
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Manna.
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London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1940, 1940
Used
First Edition
Signed
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
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First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "G. L. Pilkington from the author. Mar. 1940". The recipient was Geoffrey Langton Pilkington (18851972) chairman of the glass manufacturers Pilkington, for whom Gloag worked as a board member (Sadar, p. 95). Gloag (1896-1981) was a prolific science fiction author, close friend of Olaf Stapledon, and art historian, most famous for his work English Furniture (1958). Manna is a work of speculative fiction in which the narrating journalist discovers a plan to develop a fungus that could end world hunger whilst simultaneously causing a state of "tranquility" or lethargy. The work explores the various political response to such a possibility and predicts the imminent outbreak of large-scale European war. Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction, p. 206; Brian M. Stableford, "The Future Between the Wars: the speculative fiction of John Gloag", in Algebraic Fantasies and Realistic Romances: More Masters of Science Fiction, 1980; John Stanislav Sadar, Through the Healing Glass: Shaping the Modern Body through Glass Architecture, 1925-35, 2016. Octavo. Original purple cloth, title to spine in yellow. With dust jacket. Publisher's compliments slip loosely inserted. A very good copy, spine cocked, faint offsetting from jacket, one tip bumped, edges foxed, contents otherwise clean and without ownership marks. In the slightly rubbed dust jacket, spine ends nicked, a few marks to rear panel, still bright and presentable. Seller Inventory # 137210
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