Futility

by Morgan Robertson

$5,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: M.F. Mansfield, 1898. First edition, first printing. iv , 145 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with pictorial stamping. Very Good+ with slight lean and sunning to spine, slight soiling and grubbiness to cloth. Housed in a custom brown cloth and blue paper clamshell case.The first edition of the famously prophetic novella by Morgan Robertson, a former sailor and successful writer of sea romances. A

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