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

London: Hutchinson & Co., 1893. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii-ix [x-xi] xii [1] 2-306 [307-310: ads], frontispiece and engraved title, which are conjugate leaves comprising gathering ["a"]), original pictorial boards. First edition. This issue of the first edition does not include six of the plates found in the cloth issue. 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. Boards worn and rubbed, a very good copy. A rare issue of a very scarce book. Stuart Teitler sold this copy to collector John Ruyle. It is the only copy of this issue seen by Teitler and the only copy seen by Currey. (#152768)