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Seller: William Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop, Sidney, BC, Canada
First Edition
cat40a (illustrator). St. Louis: Little & Becker, 1884. First edition. Green cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine ruled & lettered in gilt. Floral end papers. A bright, fine copy, unusual in such nice condition. A couple of small pencil notes within, indicate the authorship of a particular poem or chapter. Inscribed from C.F. Newcomb on the first blank leaf, dated 1892. Very biblical and proverbial in tone, this novel advances the idea that the Mound Builders were descended from tribes which were originally from Egypt and Assyria, and that they built great cities in North America around 2000 B.C. A copy in the Huntington Library bears an inscription which suggests that the author was J.M. Hanks; it is likely that Cyrus F. Newcomb was the publisher. Clareson: Science Fiction in America: 1870s-1930s: 593. Wright III: 598.
Published by Little & Becker, St. Louis, Mo., 1884
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-5] 6-353 [354-356: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original decorated black cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, olive-green floral patterned endpapers. First edition. Lost race novel that describes the migration of a prehistoric people from their homeland on the Phoenician coast to China. The Chinese king gives the wanderers the Japanese islands where they learn shipbuilding and navigation. About 2,000 B.C. these people send an expedition to the Pacific coast of North America, cross the continent, and establish a great city on the present-day site of St. Louis (later settlements are made in Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Florida). A copy of this book in the Henry E. Huntington Library indicates that the author was J. M. Hanks of Florence, Colorado. The book was printed in St. Louis for the publisher Cyrus F. Newcomb & Company of Del Norte, Colorado. Curiously, the book is dated 1884 on the recto of the title leaf, but is copyright 1875 on the verso. No earlier edition of the book is known but the work may have been published earlier in a newspaper. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 593. Teitler and Locke, By the World Forgot (2013) 28. Bleiler (1978), p. 6. Reginald 10642. Wright (III) 598. Early owner's signature on recto of first blank. Touch of rubbing to cloth at head and tail of spine panel and corner tips, a bright, near fine copy. A scarce book. (#90051).
Published by Little & Becker, St. Louis, Mo., 1884
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-5] 6-353 [354-356: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original decorated green cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, olive-green floral patterned endpapers. First edition. Lost race novel that describes the migration of a prehistoric people from their homeland on the Phoenician coast to China. The Chinese king gives the wanderers the Japanese islands where they learn shipbuilding and navigation. About 2,000 B.C. these people send an expedition to the Pacific coast of North America, cross the continent, and establish a great city on the present-day site of St. Louis (later settlements are made in Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Florida). A copy of this book in the Henry E. Huntington Library indicates that the author was J. M. Hanks of Florence, Colorado. The book was printed in St. Louis for the publisher Cyrus F. Newcomb & Company of Del Norte, Colorado. Curiously, the book is dated 1884 on the recto of the title leaf, but is copyright 1875 on the verso. No earlier edition of the book is known but the work may have been published earlier in a newspaper. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 593. Teitler and Locke, By the World Forgot (2013) 28. Bleiler (1978), p. 6. Reginald 10642. Wright (III) 598. A fine copy (nearly as new). A scarce book. (#30139).