L'Eve Future

by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste

$5,000 · Offered by Biblioctopus

First edition

Paris: M. de Brunhoff, 1886. First Edition. 8vo 186x 120mm , pp. 4 , iii, 379, 1 . Some soiling, creases, and a couple of short tears, else a very good copy of a scarce book in the original publisher's wrappers. Item #1337 The first novel about an android, and the book that popularized the word itself. A fictionalized Thomas Edison, brooding in his laboratories at Menlo Park,

• Binding: Wrappers

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