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The Shadow Girl
by Cummings, Ray
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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North Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
London: Gerald G. Swan [1946]. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Green cloth with gold gilt lettering/decoration, 186 pages. [Originally published in Argosy-All-Story Magazine, June 22nd through July 13th, 1929 issues]. Bleiler [1978 Checklist, page 54]. Reginald 03696. Oswald Train's bookplate. A few spot stains to the cloth on the rear board in jacket with 1/8" chipping to the spine head and a few edge tears. clph
Synopsis
A mysterious tower appears in the middle of a city, bearing a troubled girl from the future in search of help from today. One of Cummings' best works, THE SHADOW GIRL remains thoroughly readable and enjoyable even though it was first published more than eighty years ago."He is a Verne returned and a Wells going forward," remarked "Bob" Davis, dean of American magazine editors. "He is the American H.G. Wells," say other critics. Cummings has an unusual flair for things scientific as evidenced by the fact that while at Princeton University he accomplished the remarkable feat of absorbing three years of physics in that many months. His five years' association with Thomas Edison as the latter's personal assistant also added to Cummings's scientific knowledge. His bizarre early life, living on orange plantations in Puerto Rico, striking oil in Wyoming, gold seeking in British Columbia, timber cruising in the North, before he was twenty, also left its imprint."Leaving Mr. Edison's employ, Cummings began writing scientific fiction for many magazines. His stories gripped the popular imagination and they "clicked." Mr. Cummings’s success as a writer has been meteoric, for in a few years he has become one of the world's most popular authors of scientific fiction.... --Argosy-Allstory Weekly, Feb. 8, 1930
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- Bookseller
- biblioboy
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 867659
- Title
- The Shadow Girl
- Author
- Cummings, Ray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Gerald G. Swan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1946
- Pages
- 186
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- SCIENCE, FICTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION / Science Fiction / General;
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