THE SINISTER RESEARCHES OF C. P. RANSOM

by Nearing, Jr.

$75 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. Octavo, boards. First edition. Nine stories plus The Dilemma introduction and The Award epilogue humorously describing the self-absorbed rivalry of two all-too-typical academicians -- professor Ransom, a mathematician, and professor MacTate, a philosopher. They try to develop inventions that blend the arts and sciences and hilariously fail. Gentle in tone but

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