A PLUNGE INTO SPACE ... Second Edition, with a Preface

by Jules Verne by Robert Cromie

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

Westport, Connecticut: Hyperion Press, Inc., 1976 . Octavo, frontispiece and illustrated title, cloth. First U.S. edition. Journey to Mars via steel globe, motivated by insulating it from Earth's gravity Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 61 . Martian civilization is utopian but in decline. A historically important interplanetary novel bridging Verne and Wells. Much sentimentality, but historically interesting, halfway

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