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The Abyss of Wonders by Sheehan, Perley Poore - 1953: Volume Two of the Polaris Fantasy Library

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The Abyss of Wonders by Sheehan, Perley Poore - 1953

The Abyss of Wonders: Volume Two of the Polaris Fantasy Library

by Sheehan, Perley Poore

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Copy #1141/1490 cloth-bound [of 1500 total] numbered copies. Tuck [The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, page 386 "A lost race novel; the second (and last) book from Lloyd Eshbach's Polaris Press"]. Reginald 12994. illustrated. Near Fine copy in Fine, orange variant, dust jacket. Lacking the Slipcase.
Please note that copies were variously issued with and without different color Dust Wrappers, and, with and without slipcases
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  • Illustrator John T. Brooks
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  • Edition First Edition
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  • Publisher Polaris Press Subsidiary of Fantasy Press Inc
  • Place of Publication Reading
  • Date Published 1953
  • Size 8vo
  • Keywords POLARIS, PRESS, FANTASY, LIBRARY, SCIENCE, FICTION, LOST, RACE, ADVENTURE
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Polaris Press, 1953. 190pp. Red cloth hardback, VG, in slipcase that shows light rubbing and wear to corner tips and slight fading, #582/1500, Adventure novel set in the Gobi Desert where a technologically advanced race is discovered, . Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by John T. Brooks .
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Reading, Pa.: Polaris Press, 1953. First edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with age darkening to the spine panel. The publisher's paper slipcase is very good with fading to the edges. (23039). Octavo, cloth. 1500 copies printed of which this is one of 1490 numbered clothbound copies. The second of the two Polaris Press books. Introduction by P. Schuyler Miller. Adventure novel, first published in Argosy, January 1915, set in the Gobi Desert where a technologically advanced race is discovered. "Perley Poore Sheehan's fantasies were published in the Munsey magazines between 1913 and 1917. Read today, they have the freshness of style, the feeling for people and places which you will find in 'The Abyss of Wonders' (Argosy, January, 1915), the most fully developed of them all." - Miller. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1464.
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The Abyss of Wonders

by Sheehan, Perley Poore (Introduction By P. Schuyler Miller), Illustrations By John T. Brooks

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Reading: Polaris Press, 1953. First Hardcover Edition 1st Printing. Red Cloth. Fine Book/Fine. 9 3/8" Tall. 190 Pp. #1427 Of 1500 Numbered Copies, Of Which 990 Were Bound And Slipcased By The Publisher (As This Copy), And 10 Bound In Half-Leather, The Rest Remaindered To Greenberg. Fine In Near Fine Orange Dj, Slight Rubbing At Base Of Spine Panel With A Tiny Chip, In A Near Fine Slipcase With Slight Fading And A Few Small Areas Of Dampstaining Near Edge Of One Side Panel.
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THE ABYSS OF WONDERS (THE POLARIS FANTASY LIBRARY, VOLUME TWO)

by Sheehan, Perley Poore, 1875-1943 [author]; Brooks, John T. [illustrator]; Miller, P. Schuyler [introduction]

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Reading: Polaris Press, 1953. Limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo; Limited edition 130/1500; VG/G+; Hardcover with DJ in slipcase; DJ spine, tan with brown print; Slipcase in brown paper without print, tears to paper on spine, stains, soiling to all sides; DJ has small tears to spine ends, slight smudging on spine, else clean and bright; Boards in brown cloth with silver print, slight wear to spine ends else clean and strong; Text block has red tinted top edge, clean and tight; 190 pages, illustrated (b&w). 1339415. FP New Rockville Stock.
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U.S.A: Polaris Press. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1953. First American Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in red cloth with silver-gilt titles & decoration, all edges red, no inscriptions, in a red slipcase which is faded, and rubbed at the corners. 192 pages, introduction by P. Schuyler Miller, illustrations by John T. Brooks. Limited edition, this is no. 385 of 1490 copies .
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POLARIS PRESS, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. POLARIS PRESS, 1953 NF/G+ RED CLOTH HARDCOVER IN AN EDGEWORN SLIPCASE READING, PA POLARIS PRESS (1953) 1ST ed 56/1500. Hard Cover..
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Polaris Press, 1953. First edition. John T. Brooks (illustrator). P. Schuyler Miller. Bookplate. Very Good book in a Fair slipcase.
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Reading, PA: Polaris Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1953. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo; 1990 pages; Copy #142 of 1500. Slipcase with some sunning around edges. .
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THE ABYSS OF WONDERS, Polaris Press, 1953, first edition., fine in like dust-wrapper with just a bit lightened dust-wrapper spine in somewhat faded but near fine slip-case. One of 2 books published by Lloyd Eshbach of Fantasy Press utilizing this name. #13/1500 copies.
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