THE ABYSS OF WONDERS by Sheehan, Perley Poore - 1953

Independently Published, 2019. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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..

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

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