Search Results: the hampdenshire wonder by jd beresford

Martin Secker. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in very good condition. Limited edition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Second edition. DJ in a mylar cover. VG overall. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin Books. 1937. Penguin Books. London. 1937. First edition, thus. Orange triband penguin paperback with DW. Number 92. Spine lightly creased with extremities slightly worn. Pages browned otherwise a good clean copy in a slightly wrapper worn to head and tail of spine.

London: Eyre & Spottiswood, (1948). . Reissue; originally published in 1911. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Patterned end papers. Top edge stained red. Bookplate on front end paper; a very nice copy in a slightly worn dust jacket with a few small internal tape repairs. Introduction by Walter de la Mare. An attractive copy.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. First edition.. Dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Top edge not gilt. Small ownership signature on front end paper, a little discoloration of cloth at the fore-edges, a bright very good copy. This is the second binding, with no lettering on the front cover; the first binding had gilt lettering on the spine and front cover, and the top edge was gilt. Copies are also seen in green cloth. An early novel of a super human, a Wunderkind or Homo Superior. Bleiler: Science-Fiction: The Early Years, 182. Locke: A Spectrum of Fantasy, pg. 32 (not describing this binding).

London: Sidgwick & Jackson. London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. First Edition. First Impression. Hardback. A very good copy. The author's second book, and an important entry in the area of super-humans in speculative fiction. A noted influence on Olaf Stapledon, and influenced itself by Wells. Some toning to the spine, endpapers toned. Light foxing to edges. A decent copy. [Bleiler, p21]. [6635, Hyraxia Books]. . Very Good. Hardback. 1st Edition. 1911.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition, binding variant A. Octavo. Dark green cloth, spine stamped in gilt (also seen in blue cloth) Top edge and foredge are moderately foxed, a very good or better copy in a good example of the rare printed dust jacket, the spine browned and modestly stained. *The Hampdenshire Wonder*, the author's first novel, features a child genius, and explores his treatment by those around him. The story can also be read as a partial detective novel, a genre Beresford returned to later in the *Instrument of Destiny*. *The Hampdenshire Wonder* was the first novel to deal fully with the sociological implications of a vastly superior human amongst us. In Beresford's second science fiction novel, *Goslings*, published in 1913, a plague empties London, resulting in an all-female society, considered the first time that the idea was treated seriously by an author, predating Charlotte P. Gilman's *Herland,* by a couple of years. According to… Read More

London: Sidgwick & Jackson. FIRST UK EDITION. A excellent bright and clean copy. The wrapper in particular is a sharp example with no toning or browning to the spine. It has very little loss at all and isn't price clipped. It is a remarkable survivor and a jacket in any condition is rare. The book has some damp staining to the spine although there is no evidence of this anywhere else. The pages are very clean and without foxing except for very light marks on the side text block. There is one patch of browning to the first free end paper. There is no previous owner's ink. Overall a very good or better copy. An early science / speculative fiction novel about a super-genius child and the pre-cursor to superhuman fiction.  The author's second and his most sought after. Listed in Bleiler. It is particularly rare to find this novel with the jacket and in this sort of condition.    . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1911.

London : Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Highly uncommon in such positive condition. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 295p. ; 20cm. Subjects: Science fiction, 20th century.