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Edité par Hutchinson & Co Ltd, London, 1932
Vendeur : biblioboy, North Providence, RI, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Poor. First Edition. London: Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) Ltd 1932 Hardcover. First UK and first English Language edition. Purple cloth with yellow spine lettering, 288 pages plus [only] 38 pages of ads at the rear [dated "SUMMER 1932"]. Locke [A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume Two page 38 "Science fiction novel of the discovery of a method of radio transmission of first small objects and then humans. From the German"]. Bleiler [1978 Checklist coded rp for Inventions / Imaginary wars"]. Reginald 04068. Shabby reading/filler copy only spine cocked and toned with shallow fraying to the ends, joints torn, corners bumped, board edges worn, cloth soiled/stained, top edge dust-soiled, white paper tape reinforcement to blank sheet serving as the front endpaper, binding cracked, last 2 pages of the ads and the real endpapers which should be at the rear although there is a blank page serving as the rear paste-down; but the text is complete and readable] [lacking the scarce Dust Wrapper]. A scarce book [as reportedly are all of this author's titles]. . clphE.
Edité par Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., London, 1930
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, pp. [1-10] 11-288 + 8-page publisher's catalogue headed Hutchinson's / Supplementary / Autumn List for / 1930 inserted at rear. rebound in blue cloth with author, title and publisher stamped in gold on spine panel. First edition in English. Translation of DIE STADT UNTER DEM MEER (1925). "German survivors from the First World War develop secret weapons in submarine caves off the Ligurian coast." - Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 58. "A group of German U-boats and their crews build an undersea community, and in due course, menace the world." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 67. Locke also notes that Delmont's fantasy titles are '"extremely elusive." Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 67. Bleiler (1978), p. 59. Reginald 04069. See Bloch (2002) 712. A very good copy. According to Locke, Delmont's books are "extremely elusive." (#173419).