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THE SURVIVORS
by Sibson, Francis H[enry]
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Sibson, Francis H[enry]. THE SURVIVORS. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1932. 8vo., 312ppp. Inserted folded map, title page printed in orange & black, original pictorial gray cloth, front & spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained orange, other edges rough trimmed. First U.S. Edition of this "fantastic volcanic eruption under sea brings death to many, a strange romance to two". An adventure novel of survival following the collision of two ocean liners during an earthquake & the subsequent shipwrecks on New Canada, an island continent in the area of the Sargasso Sea raised by volcanic action & subterranean earthquakes. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s- 1930s p. 695. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 62. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 197. Bleiler (1978), p. 179. Reginald 13059. A very good copy that would be described as better save for a few final pages showin a bit of light tide marks at the bottom edge. The dustwrapper price clipped with matching tide mark present. Still a decent enough copy in the uncommon jacket.
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- TBCL The Book Collection Library
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30982
- Title
- THE SURVIVORS
- Author
- Sibson, Francis H[enry]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday Doran
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- HISTORICAL NOVELS
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