T C Wignall (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+ to Very Good-. No Jacket. First Edition. 1st printing, 1923. Early foray into atomics. "Science Fiction novel of the future: the harnessing of atomic energy and broadcast power. Serialised in The Yellow Magazine in the latter part of 1922" (Locke; Spectrum I: p. 230). Light brown cloth stamped and bordered in black. Front board has been partially wet with light spotting; top edge dusty; previous owner's name and address in pencil on ffep; small tears at spine ends. Book.

Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-288 [note: first leaf used as front paste-down] + 16-page publisher's catalogue dated "Summer 1923" inserted at rear, original brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, bottom edge of sheets untrimmed. First edition. "Science fiction novel of the future; the harnessing of atomic energy and broadcast power." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 231. In a dream sequence at the end all goes horribly wrong and Paris is destroyed. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 50. Bleiler (1978), p. 208. Reginald 08402. Touch of sunning to spine panel, a clean, tight, very good copy. A very nice copy of a scarce book. (#91165).

first edition. very good , brown binding, rubbing, soiling, a little darker spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 8vo. Pp xxxii, 247. Frontis and pictorial appendix. Original cloth, heavily soiled and worn and both hinges loose. Indentations from what appears to be a child's scribbling to rear of frontis and some pen marks to fore-edge. Elegantly inscribed, dated and signed by Edward Nicholl to Major Archibald Lloyd Carpenter MP. Inscribed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of Wignall and Knox's 1923 science fiction novel about abundant nuclear energy and broadcast power. The uncommon first edition of this science fiction novel, written jointly by Gordon Daniell Knox and Trevor Charles Wignall.A thrilling science fiction novel about the 'harnessing of atomic energy and broadcast power', Locke.With a sixteen page publisher's catalogue to the rear, dated Summer 1923.The novel was serialised in The Yellow Magazine in the latter part of 1922. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Front board exceptionally bright, with light fading to back strip. Ink mark to head of rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. book.

Condition: Good. SIgned by Sir Edward Nicholl. Boards have wear, fading, scuffs and water mark to spine. Content has light toning with foxing to some pages.

Condition: Good. Signed. Boards have some wear, fading, scuffs to spine and corners. Content has light toning. No DJ.