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The Man Who Rocked the Earth
by Train, Arthur and Robert Williams Wood
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City/New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915. This speculative novel is notable as it is presumed to be the first work of fantasy or science fiction to include nuclear power as an element. Arthur Train (1875-1945) wisely chose as his co-author a physicist, Robert Williams Wood (1868-1955). This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First Edition. [Bleiler, 195.] Decorative dark blue binding featuring a ray from the sky, printed in black and silver; titling in gilt on spine and the front cover. [Quercus notes that the co-author only appears within, on the title page.] Clean text; 228 pages. Coloured frontispiece and illustrated boards by Walter l. Greene. Inked notation (1924) on the half-title. Tiny bit of rub to the margins; gilt on spine is dulled but perfectly readable. Lacking a dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector.. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. Illus. by Walter L. Greene. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005634
- Title
- The Man Who Rocked the Earth
- Author
- Train, Arthur and Robert Williams Wood
- Illustrator
- Walter L. Greene
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (Plus)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City/New York
- Date Published
- 1915
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
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About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Title Page
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- Cloth
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