mitchell j ohn a mes (6 résultats)

Octavo, pp. [1-4] [i-vi] vii-viii [1-2] 3-177 [178-180: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], illustrations by C. D, Gibson, A. B. Frost, F. T. Richards, and J. A. Mitchell, original pictorial green cloth, front panel stamped in white and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition, second printing with half title reading "That First Affair / And Other Sketches" and "Trow" imprint on copyright page. A collection of five short stories, all but one fantastic or supernatural, the first, middle and last bringing various perspectives to bear on the subject of romantic love, while the other two act as intermezzos. The title story provides a decidedly un-Biblical and revisionary telling of the story of Adam and Eve, artfully blending irony and pathos, and sidestepping pitfalls that would have ruined most writers. "Mrs. Lofter's Ride" delicately vivisects the snobbery of the New York 400, generating some surprisingly vital comedy along with the satire. In the middle piece, "The Portraits," an old thwarted love affair between two (now elderly) people is reprised by their grandchildren and finally consummated -- with supernatural help effected through the mechanism of two portraits on either side of the Atlantic. "The Man Who Vanished" is a mordant confection about sport, with a talking bear, that might have been called "The Hunted and the Hunters." The last story, "A Bachelor's Supper," is a bittersweet glance at the fate of an old bachelor who invites the shades (or are they just memories?) of his seven old lovers to a midnight supper. The gentle wistfulness of the tone receives a turn of the screw in the last sentence. This final story makes a nice bookend to the collection's first tale, each painting the joys and agonies of an alternate approach to life -- marriage vs. celibacy -- and together reinforcing the old saw about women and the impracticability of living either with them or without them. An excellent collection. Mitchell brings a sure and light touch to material that is not at all lightweight. The results are amusing, provocative and oddly moving. Bleiler (1978), p. 141. Reginald 10186. BAL 14039. Wright (III) 3772. A bright, clean, very good copy. (#110203).

Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vi [vii-xii] 1-301 [302-306: blank] [note: first and last two leaves are blanks], nineteen inserted plates with illustrations, one in color, by Angus Macdonall and the author, original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition, first printing. An interplanetary novel wherein a spacecraft powered by an antigravity device carries its inventor to the moon and later to Mars. Mitchell's last book. Many of the illustrations, which anticipate Bonestell, are quite striking. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-111. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1524. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 571. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 158. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 141. Reginald 10182. BAL 14049. Owner's initials dated November 1917 on the front free endpaper. Cloth rubbed at edges, a very good copy. (#165434).

Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-222 [223-224: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], four inserted plates with illustrations by William Balfour Ker, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. A Socialist novel. Bleiler (1978), p. 141. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Rideout, The Radical Novel in the United States 1900-1954, pp. 51-2. BAL 14045. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 M-860. Spine panel just a bit darkened, top edge of text block dusty, a very good copy with bright cover stamping. (#111405).

Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vi [vii-xii] 1-301 [302-306: blank] [note: first and last two leaves are blanks], nineteen inserted plates with illustrations, one in color, by Angus Macdonall and the author, original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition, first printing. An interplanetary novel wherein a spacecraft powered by an antigravity device carries its inventor to the moon and later to Mars. Mitchell's last book. Many of the illustrations, which anticipate Bonestell, are quite striking. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-111. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1524. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 571. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 158. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 141. Reginald 10182. BAL 14049. Slight spine lean, a bright, nearly fine copy. (#161600).

8vo. [10], 123, [1] pp. Title w/ sepia-tinted vignette. With frontisp., plates and illustrations throughout. Beige-coloured softcovers, w/ gray illustrated linen d.j., flaps folded and affixed on versos of front & back covers, cover art of young woman at the 1893 World's Fair fresh in Morning, tired and seated at Noon, and asleep in a chair by Night (minor dustsoiling, thumbing, splitting at joints of spine, ex-lib stamps on pastedown, title, and rear), still G/G- copy, w/ The Library Company of Philadelphia bookplate on front pastedown dated 12/5/1893, stamped "Duplicate Sold," from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. First edition of this nicely illustrated anthology detailing each artist's experiences and visits to the Columbian Exposition. Millet (1848-1912) displayed work at the 1893 Columbian Exposition, and died with the Titanic; Mitchell (1845-1918) was a publisher, architect & artist who records his observations of Fair visitors; Low (1853-1932) was a noted Albany, NY muralist, and Barbizon landscape painter; Gibson (1850-1896), was a noted magazine artist, and natural history illustrator whose illustrations graced Harper's Weekly, Scribner's Monthly and Century magazines, and noted for his drawings of the buildings and landscape at the 1893 World's Fair published by Scribner's; Smith (1838-1915) traveled extensively, exhibited later at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, and also had contributed earlier to the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. See: Dybwad & Bliss, Annotated Bibliography: World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 (1992), 930.

Octavo, pp. [1-7] 8-78 [79-80: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], the illustrations, uncredited in this edition, are by Mitchell, original pictorial dark blue cloth, front panel stamped in black, white and gold. First edition. Mitchell's third book, preceded by a work of nonfiction and THE ROMANCE OF THE MOON (1886), a children's fantasy. THE LAST AMERICAN is a short, clever inversion of the lost race tale just then gaining popularity, the lost race in this case being the Mehrikan people. We see America through the eyes of an admiral in the Persian navy about 1100 years in the future as an exploring party wanders through the ruins of New York City and Washington, D. C., where the detachment encounters and kills the three last Americans. Mitchell's point, aside from amusement, seems to be the danger of unrestricted immigration, which he indicates was the basic cause of America's downfall in the late twentieth century. Ultimately, American civilization is destroyed by a catastrophic change of climate, and this satire is significant as being one of the earliest SF stories to utilize the catastrophe motif. "A curious work, certainly pessimistic and bitter in substructure, yet superficially humorous in the Victorian mode." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1523. ". minor classic of the future ." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 158. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-112; (1981) 1-125 ; (1987) 1-66; (1995) 1-66; and (2004) II-773. Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, p. 77. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 572. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 21. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 125. Negley, Utopian Literature 796. Roemer, The Obsolete Necessity, p. 187. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 39. Bleiler (1978), p. 141. Reginald 10184. BAL 14030. Wright (III) 3770. Cloth lightly rubbed at head and tail of spine panel, else a fine, bright copy. This book was reprinted many times; the first printing is decidedly uncommon, especially in this condition. (#130140).