A Watcher of the Skies.
by Mertins (Gustave Frederick)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
NY: Crowell, (1911). First edition.. cat40a. Red cloth lettered in gilt. Frontispiece in color by McConnell. Spine slightly dull, some small nicks to bottom edge, some dust soiling; a very good copy otherwise. Science-fiction, mystery, and psychic novel, of a scientist's experiments in psychic realms and mind control. Also a mystery featuring detectives, though not listed in Hubin. Smith: AMERICAN FICTION: M-699. Reginald 10074. Bleiler: SCIENCE FICTION - The Early Years: 1484.
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Details
- Bookseller
- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51042
- Title
- A Watcher of the Skies.
- Author
- Mertins (Gustave Frederick)
- Illustrator
- cat40a
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- NY: Crowell, (1911). First edition.
- Keywords
- science fiction psychic mind control
- Bookseller catalogs
- SFcat;
Terms of Sale
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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About the Seller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Biblio member since 2004
Sidney, British Columbia
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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