Falsivir's Travels by Thomas Lee (First Edition) Rare
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Falsivir's Travels by Thomas Lee (First Edition) Rare
$950.00 USD
Falsivir's Travels by Thomas Lee (First Edition) Rare
Authors: Thomas Lee
Publisher: Thomas Lee
Date: 1886
Edition: First Edition
Features: Title page dated 1886. "Published for the proprietor" (i.e. author). Full subtitle: The Remarkable Adventures of John Falsivir, Seaman, at the North Pole and in the Interior of the Earth; With a Description of the Wonderful People and the Things He Discovered There. Decorated blue cloth; front panel stamped in black with gilt lettering to spine and rear panel stamped blind. A lost race novel.
Book Condition: Good: A firm copy with moderate wear to edges and corners. Mild staining to cover and tanning to spine. New endpapers. Some soiling and staining to text. Closed tear to p. 83; occasional line scribbling to pages. Pages 19-20 missing and replaced with photocopies tipped in. No jacket present.
Notes: "A lost race science fiction novel of a balloon journey to a Symmes-style inner world illuminated by its own sun and inhabited by giant people... This is, to my knowledge, the only 19th century British Sumess-style inner world story." - Lock, A Spectrum of Fantast, p. 135. "Swiftian country in Symmesia hole ... Satrie on religion enslaving giants: narrator expelled by priests. One of the most noteworthy tales of its kind." - Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 30. "Well-handled on the whole; imaginative, amusing, nicely detailed, but with confusion between destructive and constructive satire weakens the impact of the story." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1300.
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Authors: Thomas Lee
Publisher: Thomas Lee
Date: 1886
Edition: First Edition
Features: Title page dated 1886. "Published for the proprietor" (i.e. author). Full subtitle: The Remarkable Adventures of John Falsivir, Seaman, at the North Pole and in the Interior of the Earth; With a Description of the Wonderful People and the Things He Discovered There. Decorated blue cloth; front panel stamped in black with gilt lettering to spine and rear panel stamped blind. A lost race novel.
Book Condition: Good: A firm copy with moderate wear to edges and corners. Mild staining to cover and tanning to spine. New endpapers. Some soiling and staining to text. Closed tear to p. 83; occasional line scribbling to pages. Pages 19-20 missing and replaced with photocopies tipped in. No jacket present.
Notes: "A lost race science fiction novel of a balloon journey to a Symmes-style inner world illuminated by its own sun and inhabited by giant people... This is, to my knowledge, the only 19th century British Sumess-style inner world story." - Lock, A Spectrum of Fantast, p. 135. "Swiftian country in Symmesia hole ... Satrie on religion enslaving giants: narrator expelled by priests. One of the most noteworthy tales of its kind." - Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 30. "Well-handled on the whole; imaginative, amusing, nicely detailed, but with confusion between destructive and constructive satire weakens the impact of the story." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1300.
HCX23027-1