THE MAN WHO MASTERED TIME
by Cummings, Ray
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- A fine copy in very good professionally restored four-color pictorial dust jacket (reproducing a superb color painting by Allen
- Seller
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Laurel, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1929. First edition. A fine copy in very good professionally restored four-color pictorial dust jacket (reproducing a superb color painting by Allen St. John on the front panel) with age-darkening to spine and rear panels. A fairly nice example of the jacket overall, with bright, very attractive front panel that reproduces one of St. John's finest SF paintings. (10255). Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-351 [352-358: blank] [note: last three leaves are blanks], original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. Travel by time machine to earth's far future. "The Man Who Mastered Time completes the trilogy of my tales of Matter, Space, and Time [The Girl in the Golden Atom and The Fire People dealing with the first two matters, respectively]." - Ray Cummings (from foreword to a later appearance in Famous Fantastic Mysteries). Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 2-24. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 516. Clareson, Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 226.
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- Bookseller
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10255
- Title
- THE MAN WHO MASTERED TIME
- Author
- Cummings, Ray
- Book Condition
- Used - A fine copy in very good professionally restored four-color pictorial dust jacket (reproducing a superb color painting by Allen
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- A. C. McClurg & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- SF
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About the Seller
John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
About John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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