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A Plunge into Space
Robert Cromie; Jules Verne
[1891]
Frederick Warne and Co : London
7.5" by 5.5"
[11], 8-240, [8pp]
SUMMARY
The second edition of Robert Cromie's famous Utopian novel, this second edition with a preface by Jules Verne, and a frontispiece.
Early Edition,Illustrated,Publishers' Original Binding
Overall Condition: Very Good
This book weighs 1 KG when packed
UK Postage: £ 3.99
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DESCRIPTION
The second edition, with a preface by Jules Verne.
This issue without preliminary leaves, the first few leaves being the half-title, frontispiece, title page, contents leaf, dedication to Jules Verne, and Verne's 'To My English Readers'. No date to the title page. Six leaves of adverts to the rear, the first leaf of which had 30 titles, ending with Gaskell's 'Mary Barton'. The first gathering is 7 leaves, or 8 including the frontispiece, where as gathering Q is 7, including the adverts.
'A Plunge into Space' is a utopian sci-fi novel, in which humans travel to Mars and find a utopia which is so perfect that it's boring.
The themes of this novel later re-appeared ten years later in H. G. Wells' 'The First Men in the Moon'; Cromie later accused Wells of plagiarizing 'A Plunge into Space'.
Modern scholars believe that Jules Verne's preface to this work was actually written by someone else.
Illustrated with a frontispiece, and a vignette title page.
By the Irish author Robert Cromie.
Six pages of adverts to the rear.
Prize label to the front paste down, presenting the work to William Bartlett in 1891, from Spring Grove School. Bartlett's ink inscription to the recto of the front endpaper.
CONDITION
In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart, with some light marks to the boards and spine. A little rubbing to the spine and extremities. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spine is a little discoloured. Spots to the fore edge. Hinges are starting but firm. Prize label to the front paste down. Ink inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some scattered spots and handling marks.
Overall Condition: Very Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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attractive none the less. Major defects will be described.
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