{"product_id":"falsivirs-travels-by-thomas-lee-first-edition-rare","title":"Falsivir's Travels by Thomas Lee (First Edition) Rare","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e.description {font-size: 16px;}.heading {font-weight: bold;}.details {font-weight: normal;}\u003c\/style\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"heading\"\u003eFalsivir's Travels by Thomas Lee (First Edition) Rare\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading\"\u003eAuthors: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"details\"\u003eThomas Lee\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading\"\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"details\"\u003eThomas Lee\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading\"\u003eDate: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"details\"\u003e1886\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading\"\u003eEdition: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"details\"\u003eFirst Edition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading\"\u003eFeatures: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"details\"\u003eTitle 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"details\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading\"\u003eBook Condition: \u003c\/span\u003eGood: 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading\"\u003eNotes: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"details\"\u003e\"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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading\"\u003eHCX23027-1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Heartwood Books and Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44008840790127,"sku":"HCX23027-1","price":950.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/1291\/4287\/files\/57_7a8f605b-cb94-48cf-a0f2-4e0469923cf9.jpg?v=1766513846","url":"https:\/\/heartwoodbooksandart.com\/products\/falsivirs-travels-by-thomas-lee-first-edition-rare","provider":"Heartwood Books and Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}