A Strange Manuscript Found In A Copper Cylinder

DE MILLE, James

Verlag: Harper & Brothers, New York, 1888

First Edition. Large 12mo. Navy cloth binding with stamped, gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Stamped, gilt and silver designs to front cover and spine. Former owner signature to front endpaper. Illustrations by Gilbert Gaul. "A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinderis the most popular book byJames De Mille. It wasserializedposthumously and anonymously inHarper's Weekly, and published in book form by Harper and Brothers ofNew York Cityduring 1888. It was serialized subsequently in the United Kingdom and Australia, and published in book form in the United Kingdom and Canada. Later editions were published from the plates of the Harper and Brothers first edition, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The satiric and fantastic romance is set in an imaginary semi-tropicalland inAntarctica inhabited byprehistoricmonsters and a cult of death-worshipers called the Kosekin. Begun many years before it was published, it is reminiscent ofEdgar Allan Poe'sThe Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucketand anticipates the exotic locale and fantasy-adventure elements of works of the Lost World genre such asArthur Conan Doyle'sThe Lost WorldandEdgar Rice Burroughs'The Land That Time Forgot, as well as innumerable prehistoric world movies based loosely on these and other works. The title and locale were inspired byEdgar Allan Poe'sMs. Found in a Bottle. It was unfortunate for De Mille's reputation as a writer that this work was published afterShe andKing Solomon's Mines. AlthoughH. Rider Haggard's works were well known by then, the actual composition of De Mille's romance pre-dated the publication of the popular romances and his ideas were not in the least derivative from Haggard's better known works." Very Good. Binding tight. Foxing to endpapers. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 33666

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Titel: A Strange Manuscript Found In A Copper ...
Verlag: Harper & Brothers, New York
Erscheinungsdatum: 1888
Einband: Hardcover
Auflage: 1st Edition.