OFFERING a SCARCE FIRST EDITION
 "A VOYAGE TO PURILIA"
BY ELMER RICE

SEE VIEWS ABOVE

STATED FIRST EDITION PUBLISHED 1930 BY 
COSMOPOLITAN BOOK CORPORATION,
NEW YORK

THIS STORY WAS SERIALIZED IN THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE IN 1929

RICE HAD WON THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA IN 1929
FOR "STREET SCENE" ABOUT NEW YORK TENEMENT LIFE

HE WAS THE "BOY WONDER" OF PLAYWRIGHTS AT THE TIME

SIZE about 8"

297 PAGES PLUS 1

VERY GOOD ANTIQUARIAN CONDITION

 DECORATED GREEN STAR END PAPERS

THE BACK FREE END PAPER INSIDE HAS A STAMP THAT SAYS:
"THE OLD CORNER LENDING LIBRARY"
STATLER   BRANCH - HOTEL STATLER
BOSTON, MASS."

PLUS THIS SAME PAGE HAS A LIST OF LENDING DATES
FROM MARCH 4 TO NOVEMBER 11, 1930

SO THIS IS TECHNICALLY "EX-LIBRARY" BUT NOT YOUR
AVERAGE LIBRARY, IN THAT THIS IS THE HOTEL STATLER!

BLACK CLOTH BOARDS WITH SILVER TITLE AND STARS ON COVER 

 SILVER TITLE ON SPINE

 TITLES NOT FADED

WEAR AT CORNERS AND AT TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINE

FAINT SPOTTINESS ON THE BOARDS
and ON SOME PAGES

HINGES TIGHT

THIS IS A FANTASY SCIENCE FICTION / SATIRE ADVENTURE ABOUT
EARLY AVIATION TO ANOTHER PLANET
SIMILAR TO BUT DIFFERENT THAN EARTH

 "A satire on the early film industry, set in the fictional land of Purilia,
where behavior conforms to a standardized fashion.
People have no digestive or reproductive organs,
and marriage is blissful."

THIS IS A SCARCE FIRST EDITION!

AND A HOTEL STATLER SOUVENIR!

BID NOW!