Investigations and Experience of M. Shawtinbach, at Saar Soong, Sumatra. A Ret or Sequel to The Manatitlans.

by E. R. Smilie, Elton R. Smile, Pen Name

$2,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

San Francisco: Joseph Winterburn & Company, 1879. First edition, first printing. 2 , iv, 3-263 pp. Bound in publisher's blindstamped brown cloth lettered in gilt on spine, coated yellow endpapers. Fine with light rubbing to extremities, light bubbling to cloth over rear board. A beautiful copy with crisp stamping and tight binding.The first edition of a truly odd, uncommon early science fiction epistolary novel

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