The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury
by COOLIDGE, Asenath Carver
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Watertown, NY: Hungerford-Holbrook Company, 1905. First Edition. Octavo (19cm). Pictorial cloth boards, stamped in white on spine and front cover; 244pp; illus. Spine faded to pink (still easily legible); pictorial stamping gently rubbed in a few spots; still a tight, Very Good copy. 4 inserted plates (halftones) by Cassius M. Coolidge. An obscure bit of anti-pyrotechnical fiction by this prolific (if little-known) Antwerp, New York author, most of whose works appear to have been published by the tiny regional publishing firm of Hungerford & Holbrook. A contemporary reviewer (in The Advocate of Peace, a Quaker journal) praised the book for its "intense feeling on the subject [of pyrotechnics]" and observed of it that the story "...though in Miss Coolidge's usual vein, is, we think, a decided improvement over her former productions." Uncommon; no others in commerce (2014); 16 copies found in OCLC. SMITH C-749.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24952
- Title
- The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury
- Author
- COOLIDGE, Asenath Carver
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hungerford-Holbrook Company
- Place of Publication
- Watertown, NY
- Date Published
- 1905
- Keywords
- fireworks explosives pyrotechnics
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Social Fiction; Weird Science;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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- Tight
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- Cloth
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