THE STRANGE MS.

by ---, M.D. by Alexander Pitts Bettersworth

$3,500 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

Springfield, Illinois: H. W. Rokker, Printer and Binder, 1883. Octavo, pp. 1-3 4-336 337-338: blank , flyleaves at front and rear, original decorated red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, rear panel stamped in blind, decorated endpapers with floral pattern printed in brown. First edition. The first world catastrophe novel written by an American. The manuscript, written in 1881, is a prevision of

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