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THE DAY OF THE BROWN HORDE
Edité par Payson & Clarke Ltd, New York, 1929
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Membre d'association : ABAA ILAB
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Edition originale
Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-309 [310: colophon] [311-312: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original tan cloth, spine panel stamped in black, top edge stained black. First edition. The author's first book. A novel about human evolution and the survival of the fittest by an admirer of Jack London featuring cavemen who sacrifice babies to plesiosaurs and hunt bison in the valley that now forms the Gulf of California. Tooker "is best remembered for THE DAY OF THE BROWN HORDE (1929) . which deals, like most of the prehistoric-sf subgenre, with the onset of human consciousness." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 1234. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 47. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 751. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 213. Bleiler (1978), p. 194. Reginald 14181. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 2427. A clean, very good copy in good pictorial dust jacket with shelf wear at edges, shallow loss at lower spine end with internal tape mend, some general dust soiling, and age tanning to spine panel and along flap folds. (#151135).
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The day of the brown horde.
Edité par Payson & Clarke,, New York:, 1929
Vendeur : Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, Etats-Unis
Membre d'association : ABAA CBA ESA ILAB
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Edition originale
8vo. 309, [3] pp. Decoration on title. Tan publisher's cloth black lettering on spine, upper fore-edge stained black as issued (minor rubbing, slightly cocked, dustsoiling), w/ d.j. wraparound Art Deco cover art (dustsoiling, edgewear), still VG/VG- copy. First edition of this author's first work, a prehistoric science fiction/fantasy set in what would be come later the Gulf of California, against the backdrop of cataclysm's, hunting prehistoric bison, and child sacrifice. See: Baird & Greenwood, Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction, 1665-1970, 2427.
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THE DAY OF THE BROWN HORDE
Edité par Payson & Clarke Ltd, New York, 1929
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Membre d'association : ABAA ILAB
Evaluation du vendeur :
Edition originale
Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-309 [310: colophon] [311-312: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original tan cloth, spine panel stamped in black, top edge stained black. First edition. The author's first book. A novel about human evolution and the survival of the fittest by an admirer of Jack London featuring cavemen who sacrifice babies to plesiosaurs and hunt bison in the valley that now forms the Gulf of California. Tooker "is best remembered for THE DAY OF THE BROWN HORDE (1929) . which deals, like most of the prehistoric-sf subgenre, with the onset of human consciousness." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 1234. Angenot and Khouri, "An International Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction," SFS, VIII (March 1981), 47. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 751. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 213. Bleiler (1978), p. 194. Reginald 14181. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 2427. Slight spine lean, else a fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with light shelf wear at edges, some dust soiling, mainly to spine and rear panels, and a thin line of insect tracking near bottom edge of front panel. (#136285).
