red snow de moxley wright (10 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : Good+ to covers. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Spine darkened, pages yellowing, some smudges; An Inner Sanctum Novel.; 12mo; 409 pages.

paperback. Etat : Good. Cover shows minor wear, rubbing, tanning, loss on the spine ends. Pages tanned and clean.

Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 221 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.56 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 4to soft cover volume in blue pictorial wraps. Spine tight and solid wraps a little toned with minor edge wear.End papers good unmarked. 409 pages tight and very clean.

VERY GOOD+ IN STIFF PAPER WRAPS. THE INNER SANCTUM NOVELS BLUE AND WHITE PRINTED PAPER COVERED STIFF PAPER WRAPS WITH BLUE ENDPAPERS, AND TOP EDGE STAINED BLUE. SOME MODERATE WEAR TO THE SPINE EDGES, SMALL CHIP AT THE TOP FRONT FORE-EDGE CORNER, AND LIGHT DUST-SOIL. A VERY NICE CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY OF THIS FRAGILE CHEAPLY MADE BOOK. FIRST EDITION. Binding is PAPERBACK.

Octavo, pp. i-ii [1-8] 1-409 [410: blank] [411: "A Note About the Author"] [412-414: blank], stiff pictorial paper wrappers, blue endpapers, top edge stained blue. First edition. Mankind faces extinction due to a mysterious red snow that sterilized women. "The end of the human race, told with savage gusto." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1203. One of the few works of speculative fiction "from Capek's generation that compares favorably with anything by the Czech master. Its grand terminal event is the instant sterilization of the human race by a red snow that falls for ninety seconds all over the planet on August 17, 1935 . The last man, Phaeton Andrews, dies on Easter in A.D. 2027, after a lightning bolt has killed all his cronies. Or does he die? According to a rabbit who saw everything, a golden chariot with magnificent horses descended to Earth, a being -- not human -- gave Phaeton the reins, and the two of them rode, laughing heartily, up into the sky. The events of Greek mythology are adroitly reversed." - Wagar, Terminal Visions: The Literature of Last Things (1982), pp. 171-2. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 2-82. Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, pp. 174-75. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 60. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, 162. Bleiler (1978), p. 144. Reginald 10478. An early volume in The Inner Sanctum Novels series, an experiment leading toward the reintroduction of the paperback. Wrappers rubbed at edges and a bit age-darkened, a very good copy. A nice copy of a fragile book that does not age gracefully. (#174550).

Octavo, pp. i-ii [1-8] 1-409 [410: blank] [411: "A Note About the Author"] [412-414: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], stiff pictorial paper wrappers, blue endpapers, top edge stained blue. First edition. Mankind faces extinction due to a mysterious red snow that sterilized women. "The end of the human race, told with savage gusto." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1203. One of the few works of speculative fiction "from Capek's generation that compares favorably with anything by the Czech master. Its grand terminal event is the instant sterilization of the human race by a red snow that falls for ninety seconds all over the planet on August 17, 1935 . The last man, Phaeton Andrews, dies on Easter in A.D. 2027, after a lightning bolt has killed all his cronies. Or does he die? According to a rabbit who saw everything, a golden chariot with magnificent horses descended to Earth, a being -- not human -- gave Phaeton the reins, and the two of them rode, laughing heartily, up into the sky. The events of Greek mythology are adroitly reversed." - Wagar, Terminal Visions: The Literature of Last Things (1982), pp. 171-2. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 2-82. Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, pp. 174-75. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 60. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, 162. Bleiler (1978), p. 144. Reginald 10478. An early volume in The Inner Sanctum Novels series, an experiment leading toward the reintroduction of the paperback. Wrappers rubbed at edges and a bit age-darkened, still a near fine copy. A nice copy of a fragile book that does not age gracefully. (#8749).

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. None (illustrateur). First edition. The first edition of Frank Wright Moxley science fiction novel in which humanity faces extinction due to the mass sterilization of women. The first edition of this work, first printing.The novel takes place in a world in which mankind faces extinction due to a mysterious red snow that sterilized all women. Complete sterility took place in 1935, and the societal breakdown that ensued is detailed.An early volume in 'The Inner Sanctum Novels' series, an experiment leading toward the reintroduction of the paperback. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Back strip age toned, with rubbing to back strip tail and joints. Minor chipping to back strip head and tail. Light handling marks to rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good. book.

Wraps. Etat : very good. First edition. Pictorial stiff wrappers. 409pp. There is a 1" x 1/2" piece rubbed on front cover. The Inner Sanctum Novels. Author's 1st book.

Cloth. Etat : Very Good Indeed. None (illustrateur). First edition. A very smart, first UK edition of this vanishingly scarce science-fiction novel by Frank Wright Moxley. First UK edition, published the year following the US edition. Scarce to see the first UK edition.Bound in the publisher's original cloth. Lacking the original dust wrapper.Written by US author and lawyer Frank Wright Moxley, as part of the Inner Sanctum Novels series, published by Simon and Schuster at this time. 'Red Snow' tells the intriguing and futuristic story of the hundred year period between the birth of the last human and the last remaining human alive. This predicament follows a worldwide disaster which caused complete sterility in 1935, and the societal breakdown that ensued. In the publisher's cloth binding. Externally, excellent, with light bumping to the extremities and spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.