(SCIENCE FICTION) [TUCKER GEORGE] A Voyage to the Moon

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(SCIENCE-FICTION.) [TUCKER, GEORGE] A Voyage to the Moon: with Some Account of the Manner and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians. By Joseph Atterley. 12mo, contemporary sheep, modern rebacking with morocco lettering piece; old ownership inscription on front pastedown, recased with restorations to early and last blanks, new endpapers, mild scattered soiling to contents; folding cloth case (booklabel). New York: Elam Bliss, 1827

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first edition. Scarce work, published pseudonymously by the Chairman of the Faculty of the University of Virginia. 'Several features of importance, among them the use of a counter-gravitational substance ... and the idea that a moon voyager must cross an airless void in bitter cold" (Bailey, Pilgrims through Space and Time).