To Mars Via the Moon by Mark Wicks (First Edition)
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To Mars Via the Moon by Mark Wicks (First Edition)
$100.00 USD
To Mars Via the Moon by Mark Wicks (First Edition)
Authors: Mark Wicks
Location: London
Publisher: Seeley and Co. Limited
Date: 1911
Edition: First Edition
Features: Title page dated 1911. Preface and frontispiece illustration by Mark Wicks, 1910. Navy blue cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial designs. Illustrated. 328 pp. With publisher adverts laid in. Featured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.†This 1911 novel describes a journey to the moon and Mars in the anti-gravity spaceship Areonal. Heavily influenced by the work of Percival Lowell, the book is an accurate mirror of the popular interest in Mars at the time it was written.
Book Condition: Very Good+: A firm copy with minor wear to spine edges and corners. Bright gilt. Mild tanning to endpapers with minor foxing to prelims, fore edges, and last few pages. Owner's name to front free endpaper. No jacket present.
Notes: First American Ed: Lippincott 1911; WorldCat and ISFDB 1911 earliest date listed
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Authors: Mark Wicks
Location: London
Publisher: Seeley and Co. Limited
Date: 1911
Edition: First Edition
Features: Title page dated 1911. Preface and frontispiece illustration by Mark Wicks, 1910. Navy blue cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial designs. Illustrated. 328 pp. With publisher adverts laid in. Featured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.†This 1911 novel describes a journey to the moon and Mars in the anti-gravity spaceship Areonal. Heavily influenced by the work of Percival Lowell, the book is an accurate mirror of the popular interest in Mars at the time it was written.
Book Condition: Very Good+: A firm copy with minor wear to spine edges and corners. Bright gilt. Mild tanning to endpapers with minor foxing to prelims, fore edges, and last few pages. Owner's name to front free endpaper. No jacket present.
Notes: First American Ed: Lippincott 1911; WorldCat and ISFDB 1911 earliest date listed
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