Die Riese zur Venus (The Voyage to Venus)
by Meyn, Nils
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- Hardcover
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- Seller
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Garrison, New York, United States
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About This Item
Dresden, 1930. Hardcover. 8vo, 162pp, color frontis. Decorative cloth boards with illustration of cylindrical spaceship above the Earth. Title in orange on a medium blue ground. Title on spine in yellow on off white ground. Original dj has same illustration of spaceship as cloth boards; dj is dusty and edges are worn; front and back cover separated. Nils Meyn was a Swedish science fiction writer who published this work in Germany in 1930. The story concerns an inventor who discovers that each planet has a unique charge; he uses this knowledge to propel his spaceship to Venus where he discovers a prehistoric world populated by human beings and saurians. In German.
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- Bookseller
- Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11663
- Title
- Die Riese zur Venus (The Voyage to Venus)
- Author
- Meyn, Nils
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- Dresden
- Date Published
- 1930
- Bookseller catalogs
- SCIENCE FICTION;
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Garrison, New York
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