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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. [4], 204 pages. 8vo, original pebble-grain green cloth with blind-stamped center ornament on covers and gilt-lettered spine, slightly shaken, spine ends and cover corners bumped; contents toned, with scattered minor foxing and soiling; green morocco folding case. London: Lockwood & Co., 1864
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"). No copy has ever been listed in American Book Prices Current. with a contemporary inscription on the verso of the frontispiece identifying the author: "Geo. Evans presented to him by the Author H. Cowen the 20 Sept. 1866." In the standard references and OCLC, the book has until now been catalogued either as an anonymous work, or under the names of the pseudonymous authors (Stephen Howard and Carl Geister) or editor (Chrysostom Trueman).
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