Search Results: the abyss of wonders by sheehan perley poore

Independently published, 2019-05-29. Paperback. Used: Good.

Reading, PA: Polaris Press, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition thus, hardcover with red cloth boards in a slipcase, octavo, 191pp., with illustrations, #78 of 1500. Book condition is Very Good, Slipcase is Good. Slipcase has sunning, water damage, chipping , corner and edge wear, book has previous price points in ink on endpapers, some corner and edge wear and a small slash on the spine otherwise binding is tight and pages are clean, bright and unmarked. No DJ.

Independently published, 2019-05-29. Paperback. Used:Good.

Polaris Press, 1953. 190pp. Red cloth hardback, VG, in slipcase that shows light rubbing and wear to corner tips and slight fading, #582/1500, Adventure novel set in the Gobi Desert where a technologically advanced race is discovered, . Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by John T. Brooks .

Reading, Pa.: Polaris Press, 1953. First edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with age darkening to the spine panel. The publisher's paper slipcase is very good with fading to the edges. (23039). Octavo, cloth. 1500 copies printed of which this is one of 1490 numbered clothbound copies. The second of the two Polaris Press books. Introduction by P. Schuyler Miller. Adventure novel, first published in Argosy, January 1915, set in the Gobi Desert where a technologically advanced race is discovered. "Perley Poore Sheehan's fantasies were published in the Munsey magazines between 1913 and 1917. Read today, they have the freshness of style, the feeling for people and places which you will find in 'The Abyss of Wonders' (Argosy, January, 1915), the most fully developed of them all." - Miller. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1464.

Book. Fine. Hardcover. FIRST. Like new in dj. First edition..

Reading: Polaris Press, 1953. First Hardcover Edition 1st Printing. Red Cloth. Fine Book/Fine. 9 3/8" Tall. 190 Pp. #1427 Of 1500 Numbered Copies, Of Which 990 Were Bound And Slipcased By The Publisher (As This Copy), And 10 Bound In Half-Leather, The Rest Remaindered To Greenberg. Fine In Near Fine Orange Dj, Slight Rubbing At Base Of Spine Panel With A Tiny Chip, In A Near Fine Slipcase With Slight Fading And A Few Small Areas Of Dampstaining Near Edge Of One Side Panel.

Reading: Polaris Press, 1953. Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo; Limited edition 130/1500; VG/G+; Hardcover with DJ in slipcase; DJ spine, tan with brown print; Slipcase in brown paper without print, tears to paper on spine, stains, soiling to all sides; DJ has small tears to spine ends, slight smudging on spine, else clean and bright; Boards in brown cloth with silver print, slight wear to spine ends else clean and strong; Text block has red tinted top edge, clean and tight; 190 pages, illustrated (b&w). 1339415. FP New Rockville Stock.

U.S.A: Polaris Press. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1953. First American Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in red cloth with silver-gilt titles & decoration, all edges red, no inscriptions, in a red slipcase which is faded, and rubbed at the corners. 192 pages, introduction by P. Schuyler Miller, illustrations by John T. Brooks. Limited edition, this is no. 385 of 1490 copies .

POLARIS PRESS, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. POLARIS PRESS, 1953 NF/G+ RED CLOTH HARDCOVER IN AN EDGEWORN SLIPCASE READING, PA POLARIS PRESS (1953) 1ST ed 56/1500. Hard Cover..

Polaris Press, 1953. First edition. John T. Brooks (illustrator). P. Schuyler Miller. Bookplate. Very Good book in a Fair slipcase.

Reading, PA: Polaris Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1953. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo; 1990 pages; Copy #142 of 1500. Slipcase with some sunning around edges. .

THE ABYSS OF WONDERS, Polaris Press, 1953, first edition., fine in like dust-wrapper with just a bit lightened dust-wrapper spine in somewhat faded but near fine slip-case. One of 2 books published by Lloyd Eshbach of Fantasy Press utilizing this name. #13/1500 copies.

Reading, PA: Polaris Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Brooks, John T.. Edition limited to 1500 copies, this being #589. Originally published in Argosy in 1915. Red cloth stamped in silver on cover and spine, all edges stained purple. A fine copy in very good faded red cardboard slipcase. Introduction by P. Schuyler Miller. Illustrations by John T. Brooks. "... mixes Theosophy and superscience in its tale of a lost race in the Gobi desert." The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, eds. Clute and Nicholls, 1999, p. 1098. ; Octavo.

Reading, PA: Polaris Press. 1953. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. This Number 821of 1500 total numbered copies. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Reading, PA: Polaris Press, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Without dust jacket as issued.. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo.190pp. This is no.10 of 10 Special Editions bound in half-leather. (Clearly states special edition, but looks as though it was re-numbered, light spot of paper under the hand-written"10"). Total edition limited to 1500 copies. Illustrated by John T. Brooks; Introduction by P. Schuyler Miller. Second and final book of the Polaris Press. Housed in paper-coverd slipcase that has light wear and fading. Advanced civilization in the Gobi Desert.