London: Longmans, Green, 1889. First edition.. Original tan pictorial wrappers, designed and lettered in red, bound into a later binding of cloth & marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. Paper browning at edges, but a very nice clean copy. A noted future-war tale. BAL 18894. Bleiler: Science Fiction, The Early Years, 2104.

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Bookseller: William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 56471
Title: The Great War Syndicate.
Author: Stockton (Frank R.)
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London: Longmans, Green, 1889. First edition.
Bookseller catalogs: SFcat;

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William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop

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About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop

Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
BAL: Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Wrappers: The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
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...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Marbled boards: ...