THE CELEBRATED MOON STORY
by Griggs, William N
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Richmond, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
Bunnell and Price, New York, 1852. Bound in the original blind stamped ribbed cloth with a pictorial representation of a lunar voyage on the cover. 12mo. FIRST EDITION. This volume is in two parts, pages 1-45 relate the history of how Richard Adams Locke, a reporter for the New York Sun, concocted a fantastic tale of the existence of moon inhabitants. This report was based on the astronomical discoveries of Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope. Owing to the distance and time for transatlantic travel it was several months before the hoax was discovered. The second part of this volume, pages 46-143 has a separate title page and reprints articles originally published in the newspaper. Locke's imagination ran wild, even to the point of identifying animals and a human-like creature with bat wings. Offset from articles to prelims., blank endleaf excised, scattered light foxing but overall a nice copy of a fragile work rarely found.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3833
- Title
- THE CELEBRATED MOON STORY
- Author
- Griggs, William N
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bunnell and Price
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1852
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Moon, hoax, aliens, space travel
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Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...