EDISON'S CONQUEST OF MARS ... With an Introduction

by A. Langley Searles, Ph. D. by Garrett Serviss

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Los Angeles: Carcosa House, 1947. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 1500 numbered copies. Posthumously published as a book, but actually the author's first science fiction novel, first printed as a newspaper serial in 1898. Apparently intended as a sequel to Wells's THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, wherein earth attacks and occupies Mars. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-134; 1981 1-147; 1987 1-82;

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