VALDMER THE VIKING. A ROMANCE OF THE ELEVENTH CENTURY BY SEA AND LAND .. by Nisbet, Hume - n.d. [1893].

London: Hutchinson & Co., n.d. [1893].. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii-ix [x-xi] xii [1] 2-306 [307-312: ads (dated "October, 1893" on page [308])], eight inserted plates with illustrations by Hume Nisbet and M. Nisbet (including frontispiece and engraved title, which are conjugate leaves comprising gathering ["a"]), original pictorial light blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, black coated endpapers, all edges trimmed and plain. First edition. Nisbet's most fantastic novel, a mix of historical fantasy, the supernatural, and super science. Vikings find an ancient and technologically superior civilization, the Tulans, who inhabit a warm land in the North Polar Sea. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1626. Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 873. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 166. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 53. Australian and New Zealand "Lost Race" Fiction in the Collection of Stuart Teitler (private list), p. 3. Bleiler (1978), p. 148. Reginald 10696. Miller, pp. 636-37. A bit of tanning to spine panel, top edge dusty, re-cased upside down (whoops!) with new endpapers. Still presents well overall. (#150768)