Before the Dawn
by Taine, John (pseudonym of Eric Temple Bell)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very good
- Seller
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South Pasadena, California, United States
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About This Item
Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very good. A first edition of this scarce science fiction novel by a Caltech math professor writing under a pseudonym. Hardcover in dust jacket, with price intact on rear flap. Book is clean and crisp in blue cloth boards with a claw embossed in the corner, and title and author in yellow on spine. Light wear to spine ends. Tan dust jacket has chips along top edge and loss at top of spine but presents well nonetheless. "A narrative of the revelations of the Langtry televisor concerning the frightful terrestrial upheavals and the losing struggle for existence of the great saurians, by an eye-witness of those stirring events." Described as "a literary fable having a scientific warp but a fictitious weft." The publisher specialized in books on science. 8vo. 247 pp. In protective Mylar.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Warwick Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 96491
- Title
- Before the Dawn
- Author
- Taine, John (pseudonym of Eric Temple Bell)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Williams & Wilkins Company
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- Science fiction; saurians; dinosaurs; fantasy; Getman done
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Warwick Books
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South Pasadena, California
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