Dollars Worth by Brown Fred (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. One Dollar's Worth by Fred H. Brown (First Edition) Bright cloth. Gift inscription front free endpaper. No jacket present. A black and white printed watercolor and photographic frontispiece. Black line illustrations throughout. A collection of short stories based on the experiences of the Author. Blue cloth with silver gilt to front cover and spine. BOOK.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Cover. First Edition. Very good black cloth hardcover 1893, Unusual story book Includes several fantastical, sci-fi stories with comic line drawings throughout text "What John Saw in the Moon", "A Message from the Stars", "Listen to my Tale of Whoa".

First and presumably only edition. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to the upper board and spine. Illustrated with line drawings throughout, mostly by H. Mayer. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm with minor rubbing and fraying at the spine tips and corners. The contents are entirely complete, clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Scarce. A literary miscellany that includes two interplanetary tales, "What John Smith Saw in the Moon" and "A Message from the Stars". From the library of Martin Stone. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-177 [178: blank], flyleaf at front, inserted frontispiece (portrait of the author), plus numerous vignette drawings throughout the text, original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in silver. First edition. A literary miscellany that includes two interplanetary tales, "What John Smith Saw in the Moon" and "A Message from the Stars." "A potpourri of fiction, poetry, and comic illustrations. A note of social protest is to be found in some of the material . Curious ideas at times, but probably not worth a dollar when it was written. It represents a fairly common mixture of occultism, socialism, primitive science, and contemporary magazine humor." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 279. "What John Smith Saw in the Moon," pp. 5-44, was originally published in THE WORKINGMAN'S ADVOCATE. The Lunar utopia is "technologically advanced; no money" (Sargent, p. 60). Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 41. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985, pp. 59-60; 97. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). Reginald 01965. Wright (III) 707 (no copies located). Faint damp stain on front cover, minimal loss to silver stamping, a bright, very good copy of a rare book. (#146184). …