BREAKING UP OR THE BIRTH, DEVELOPMENT AND DEATH OF THE EARTH AND ITS SATELLITE IN STORY

by Lysander Salmon Richards

$350 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition · Signed

Boston: J. E. Farwell & Co., Printers, 1896. Octavo, pp. 1-7 8-247 248: blank , original decorated brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, light brown floral patterned endpapers. First edition. Presentation copy with signed inscription by Richards on the recto of the introduction leaf with the name of the recipient neatly clipped off. The spirits of some beings from a planet round Sirius witness the

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