Angus Evan Abbott James Barr (4 results)

Condition: Good. 1932. Paperback. "Commissioning organisation: by the Rev. James Barr . 48 p. illus. (incl. ports.) 4 pl. on 2 l. 21 cm. Cover-title. Original printed wraps. Good clean copy with tight binding, clean and crisp pages, slightest suggestion of dust dulling to cover edges, staples a trifle rusted." Keywords: "War , Pamphlet". Not a first edition copy. . . .…

Condition: Good. 1932. Paperback. "Commissioning organisation: by the Rev. James Barr . 48 p. illus. (incl. ports.) 4 pl. on 2 l. 21 cm. Cover-title. Original printed wraps. Good clean copy with tight binding, clean and crisp pages, slightest suggestion of dust dulling to cover edges, staples a trifle rusted." Keywords: "War , Pamphlet". Not a first edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Red cloth, covers ruled in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Some darkening of spine, one stain near base of spine, in general a decent very good copy. The American edition was published by Stone & Kimball in the same year. A Utopian travelers tale, of a strange community in an unlocated mountainous region. Locke, Spectrum of Fantasy II, 12. The British edition is uncommon. cat40a (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. An uncommon Lost Race tale by the author James Barr, under his pseudonym Angus Evan Abbott. The first edition of this uncommon work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. James Barr (1862-1923) was a Canadian-born author, who sometimes wrote under the name Angus Evan Abbott. This is a 'Lost Race' science fiction novel concerning a mountaintop utopia. A thirty-two-page publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, though faded, particularly to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…