Camille Flammarion: Urania: A Romance, Waitakere in Waitakere, Auckland for sale

Binding poor, with large 6"tear to spine cloth. Rear joint broken. Front hinge broken. Binding loose. Some loss of cloth along edges of corners of boards. A rough reading copy.; First UK edition. Text in English, translated from the French by Augusta Rice Stetson. vi, 245, [3] pages + 32 pages advertisements. Cloth boards with illustration of 2 persons in a balloon on front board. Page dimensions: 191 x 126mm. Numerous small in-text illustrations by de Beiler, Myrbach, and Gambard. Science Fiction. A reincarnation romance. Flammarion (1842-1925) was a French astronomer and writer, and"one of the first major popularizers of Astronomy"[Clute&Nicholls,"Encyclopedia of Science Fiction"(1995) page 432] [Seller ref: Knightcol] ; 8vo
Author
Camille Flammarion
Title
Urania: A Romance
Publisher name
Chatto&Windus, London
Shipping time
2 - 5 days
Publication year
1891
Edition
First edition
Binding type
Hard cover
Listing condition
Used
Item condition
Fair
Vendor name
Renaissance Books
Vendor rating
Key words
Literature
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