The Iron Pirate, A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea

by Max Pemberton

$45 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

Chicago, IL: Rand, McNally and Company, n.d. 1897 . Science Fiction EARLY EDITION. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.266 2 . With a lithographic frontispiece. In publisher's brown cloth decorated in green, brown and gilt. Top edge gilt. Light external wear; some rubbing to spine. Very good overall. An early edition, one of the first in the US, of this prophetic novel featuring a ship propelled by an engine running on gasoline. First published in London in 1893.

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