Mitchell j ohn a mes (3 Ergebnisse)
Verlag: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, New York 1917
- Hardcover
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, USACurrey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
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Octavo, pp. [1-2: blank] [i-iv] v-vi [vii-xii] 1-301 [302-306: blank] nineteen inserted plates with illustrations, one in color, by Angus Macdonall and the author, publisher's decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition, first printing. An interplanetary novel wherein a spacecraft powered by an an…tigravity device carries its inventor to the moon and later to Mars. Mitchell's last book. Many of the illustrations, which anticipate Bonestell, are quite striking. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-111. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1524. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 571. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 158. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 141. Reginald 10182. BAL 14049. Cloth rubbed at edges, front free endpaper missing, a good copy. (#174428).
Verlag: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, New York 1917
- Hardcover
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, USACurrey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
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Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vi [vii-xii] 1-301 [302-306: blank] [note: first and last two leaves are blanks], nineteen inserted plates with illustrations, one in color, by Angus Macdonall and the author, original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition, first printing. An interplanetary novel w…herein a spacecraft powered by an antigravity device carries its inventor to the moon and later to Mars. Mitchell's last book. Many of the illustrations, which anticipate Bonestell, are quite striking. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-111. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1524. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 571. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 158. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 141. Reginald 10182. BAL 14049. Slight spine lean, a bright, nearly fine copy. (#161600).
Verlag: Charles Scribner's Sons,, New York: 1893
- Softcover
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, USAZephyr Used & Rare Books
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8vo. [10], 123, [1] pp. Title w/ sepia-tinted vignette. With frontisp., plates and illustrations throughout. Beige-coloured softcovers, w/ gray illustrated linen d.j., flaps folded and affixed on versos of front & back covers, cover art of young woman at the 1893 World's Fair fresh in Morning, tired and seated at Noon, and aslee…p in a chair by Night (minor dustsoiling, thumbing, splitting at joints of spine, ex-lib stamps on pastedown, title, and rear), still G/G- copy, w/ The Library Company of Philadelphia bookplate on front pastedown dated 12/5/1893, stamped "Duplicate Sold," from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. First edition of this nicely illustrated anthology detailing each artist's experiences and visits to the Columbian Exposition. Millet (1848-1912) displayed work at the 1893 Columbian Exposition, and died with the Titanic; Mitchell (1845-1918) was a publisher, architect & artist who records his observations of Fair visitors; Low (1853-1932) was a noted Albany, NY muralist, and Barbizon landscape painter; Gibson (1850-1896), was a noted magazine artist, and natural history illustrator whose illustrations graced Harper's Weekly, Scribner's Monthly and Century magazines, and noted for his drawings of the buildings and landscape at the 1893 World's Fair published by Scribner's; Smith (1838-1915) traveled extensively, exhibited later at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, and also had contributed earlier to the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. See: Dybwad & Bliss, Annotated Bibliography: World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 (1992), 930.
