[Works] [The Autograph Edition] Wreck of the Titan, Masters of Men, Where Angels Fear to Tread, Three Laws and the Golden Rule, Sinful Peck, And, the Grain Ship

Robertson, Morgan

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The volume: Where Angels Fear to Tread has the autographed signature statement. This is a 6 volume set of Morgan Robertson's works -- including three volumes in the original Autograph Edition (Masters of Men, Wreck of the Titan, and Where Angels Fear to Tread) , along with three volumes published later, but in the same uniform binding. Three of the books are in generally Very Good- condition, Three of the books are in Good to Good only condition. All of the volumes have some bumping, rubbing and wear to the spine ends, corners and edges of the book covers. The volumes all have spots of discoloration , or rubbing, or wear to the covers. A couple of the volumes have tearing to the cloth spine joints that has been repaired. The text pages are generally clean and bright. One volume had a large patch of discoloration to the rear endpaper and rear pastedown page. "(1861-1915) US sailor and author, almost always on nautical themes; many of his stories are sf or fantasy. These tales, typical of their maritime venues, tend to the mystical, the fog-girt, the occult and the morose, the most useful assemblies of his early work in this vein being Spun Yarn: Sea Stories (coll 1898) and "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Tales of the Sea (coll 1899) , both of these assembled with one added story as Spun Yarn: Sea Stories (omni 1900) ; some later work appears in Over the Border (coll 1914). His sf is sometimes similarly atmospheric, though a story like "The Battle of the Monsters" (16 July 1899 Saturday Evening Post) is one of several late nineteenth-century tales featuring microscopic observers (see Great and Small) who report back on events within the human body, in this case a battle between rabies bacilli and antitoxins (see Medicine). Of his Future-War tales, "The Submarine Destroyer" (September 1905 Everybody's Magazine) in which the Invention of a torpedo-deflecting warship enables America to enforce the repatriation of Japanese-Americans to a reluctant Japan (see Yellow Peril) is perhaps the strongest; though "A Matter of Induction" (15 April 1910 Popular Magazine) featuring the continuing character Finnegan who becomes a genius when drunk, and is consequently able to fly a brand-new experimental plane that no one else knows how to pilot is also a future-war tale of interest." (from the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction).

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• Titre: [Works] [The Autograph Edition] Wreck of the Titan, Masters of Men, Where Angels Fear to Tread, Three Laws and the Golden Rule, Sinful Peck, And, the Grain Ship
• Éditeur: McClure's Magazine and Metropolitan Magazine N.D., New York, NY
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Good