(SCIENCE FICTION) [COWEN H] The History of a Voyage to the M

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(SCIENCE FICTION.) [COWEN, H.] The History of a Voyage to the Moon, with an Account of the Adventurers' Subsequent Discoveries. An Exhumed Narrative, supposed to have been ejected from a Lunar Volcano. Lithographed frontispiece. 8vo, original pebble-grain green cloth with blind-stamped center ornament on covers and gilt-lettered spine, faded serial number on cover; ex-Brigham Young library with lending instructions affixed to first pastedown, withdrawal stamp on first free endpaper, small blindstamps to 3 prelim leaves, archival tape to half-title; custom cloth drop-back case. London: Lockwood & Co., 1864

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scarce first edition. "An interplanetary fantasy whose protagonists employ a force of 'repulsion' to convey an 'island earth' to the Moon. They discover a communistic utopian society of miniature humans, who are unwitting reincarnations of souls who have previously lived on Earth . . . A fascinating philosophical romance, intermediate between satirical lunar voyages and scientific romances"--Barron, The Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1141. Bleiler, Checklist, page 6; Locke, Voyages in Space 11 ("an important book in that considerable thought is devoted to the operation of the antigravity substance").