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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+ to Near Fine. First Edition. [1st printing] Sept. 1908. "Novel of an advanced, Utopian lost race in Africa" (Locke: Spectrum I, p. 107); "A lost-race novel and a description of an ideal society, all based on occultism" (Bleiler: Science-Fiction: The Early Years, #1062). Red pictorial (gilt print and mountain skyline) cloth; 439pps. Light extremity wear.
Published by Reid Publishing Company. London: Arthur F. Bird, Boston, 1908
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-430, original pictorial maroon cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. Utopian lost race novel. The "Zoeians," inhabitants of a secret African country, have discovered the secrets of solar power and immortality and are evolving into a higher form of mankind. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1062. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 406. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 107. Rooney, Dreams and Visions: A Study of American Utopias, 1865-1917, p. 190. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 144. Bleiler (1978), p. 95. Reginald 06911. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 H-367. Endpapers and edges of text block a bit tanned, a tight, very good copy with clean and bright cover. (#109930).
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A scarce first edition of this lost race novel from American author Frank Hatfield. First edition. Scarce work. A lost race novel written in the form of a manuscript left to John Stevens by Frank Hatfield. Set on a high plateau in Africa, the Zoeians apply advanced technology including solar power to maintain an existence so spiritually elevated they are considered living exponents of Christ. Written by Frank Hatfield, the pen name of John Stevens, an American author. In the original burgundy cloth binding. Externally, smart with light bumping and minor rubbing to the extremities. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good. book.