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Edité par Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1897
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, original pictorial mauve cloth. First edition. Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) was an important contributor to the development of the American short story, the originator of the type of story later known as "Stocktonesque." In addition to realistic extravaganza and humor, there was lightness of touch, vivacity and mere entertainment. Wright (III) 2391. Cloth lightly rubbed at spine ends, some soiling to cloth, a very good copy.(#113554).
Edité par Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1893
Vendeur : Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. First Edition. Decorated green cloth. An uncommon collection of poetry by the author of THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY. Mild soiling to the covers. Very Good.
Np nd. Oblong 2.5 x 3.5", stiff card, minor toning, ink smudge (w/part of fingerprint), minor edge wear else good. INSCRIBED "I am glad to do what you wish" SIGNED BY HALE. Clergyman and author.
Edité par Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1880
Vendeur : The Curiosity Book Shop, Hardwick, MA, Etats-Unis
Livre
Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Brown cloth; gilt title and spine lettering; black ink floral cover decoration; decorated endpapers. Reprint; copyright 1879. Four pages of publisher's ads in rear. Tissue-guarded frontispiece engraved half-title illustrated with battle scenes. First-hand accounts of the Civil War. Moderate-to-heavy rubbing to cover extremities, with fraying to cloth at upper corners. Small, light, irregular fade patches, caused by margin of rear board. Vintage prior owner inscription on first blank endpaper. Clean and tight.
Edité par Funk and Wagnalls, New York, 1884
Vendeur : The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
1 vols. 8vo. Etat : Original blue cloth and boards. First edition. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo.
Edité par Cassell & Co Ltd 1892 (Cassell s International Series), 1892
Vendeur : Tiger books, Canterbury, Royaume-Uni
Livre Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. original cloth, spine bumped, ex Mudie s Select Library with their label upper cover and subscribers slip, publisher s catalogue dated 7G-12.92, feintly spotted, very good. first edition; 287 pages.
Edité par Fields, Boston, 1869
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale Signé
Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-xiv [xv-xvi] [1] 2-206 [207-208: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], flyleaves at front and rear, original terra cotta cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold and blind, brown coated endpapers. First edition. In the title story, "My Visit to Sybaris. From the Rev. Frederic Ingham's Papers," pp. [1]-87, a utopian colony of Sybarites is discovered off the coast of Italy. "A quiet eutopia of gentle, good-humored people. Includes a variety of miscellaneous reforms" (Sargent, p. 57). Also includes the continuation, "A Week in Sybaris." The other stories are mainly reform literature. Kopp 832. Parrington, American Dreams, pp. 44-7. Rooney, Dreams and Visions: A Study of American Utopias, 1865-1917, p. 189. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 57 and p. 58. Bleiler (1948) p. 138. Reginald 06636. Not in Bleiler (1978). Wright (II) 1059. Spine ends worn and frayed with shallow loss, a bright, very good copy. A small card with two-line note signed by Hale is laid in. (#138264).
Edité par J. Stilman Smith, Boston, 1895
Vendeur : Hyraxia Books. ABA, ILAB, Hutton Cranswick, Royaume-Uni
Livre Edition originale Signé
Hardback. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. Boston, J. Stilman Smith, 1895. First Edition. First Impression. Hardback. A fine copy. Three important things of note with this book. Firstly, the book's inscribed by the author. Secondly, the condition is fantastic. The book's in it's jacket which is fine, with trivial tanning to the spine and a 2mm tear to the lower edge of the jacket. Finally, there's a case for the importance of this book. The story was first published in 1881 in Harper's and involves travelling back in time to alter events in the future. The method of time travel is not mechanical, as in Wells' book, so doesn't carry the weight of that book in its place in the sf canon. Rather, the protagonist just operates beyond the restraints of time and space. This is little different to supernatural methods or dream-based backward time travel of earlier books. That said, I know of only a few earlier stories in English where the altering of historic events have future rammifications. Hawthorne's 'P's Correspondence' deals with literary lives, with Byron dying later for example; the time line is attributed to madness however, or at least an alternative reality. The rammifications of the time travel in Disraeli's Tale of Alroy don't seem to be as obvious though, and it may even be argued that the story is a secret rather than alternative history. In the present book, Joseph is not sold into Egyptian slavery and the Phoenicians thus take over the the Mediterranean. I wouldn't like to suggest that this is the earliest story of alternative history, but it's one of the earliest in the English language, and this is the first book edition of that story. And it's in a 19th century dust jacket, and inscribed. So, there you go. [10151, Hyraxia Books]. Signed by Author(s).