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Copy #110 of 300 copies. Perfect condition in original case. No shelf wear or markings. Signed at the back of the book by Joy Finzi.

excellent condition, light shelf wear, no markings

Bookplate, and light foxing with light edge wear, but a near fine bright copy. The author was a physician and entomologist for the State of New York. "Fitch's appointment gave official recognition to applied entomology, and represented the first great practical step taken in the United States to investigate the problem of insect damage". With four full plates, and scattered illustrations in the text. This copy is presented to a physician, "Geo.C.Brown from Prof.G.H.Cook", who was the geologist for the State Of New Jersey, and with the bookplate of Dr. Brown.

Fine bright copy. A "lost race" novel. The story begins on a large sheep ranch a hundred miles west of Santa Fe, New Mexico in the area where Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado meet (Four corners). Includes an Indian attack, and, on one occasion, being saved by a herd of buffalo. The hero and two companions make their way by drifting with the current to a Central American lost city. "A geographically ignorant, weak imitation of H.Rider Haggard, stilted language and all, to which have been added dime-novel elements". Bleiler, Science Fiction, p.251. An early work by this British author who later found his metier as a writer of detective fiction. Woodrow Wilson's approval increased his following. Bleiler, Checklist, p.74. Lock, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p.85.

excellent condition, no markings

excellent condition, no markings

Limited to 200 copies. This copy is a presentation copy signed in full by Fordham. Fine copy.

Two volumes. Edited by Edward Connery Lathem And Hyde Cox. This copy is a publisher's dummy, bound differently and preceding the published edition, and printing only the introduction, the editor's preface, and four pages of Robert Frost Prose Jottings. Included is a copy of the published edition, fine in slipcase box issued in 1982.