Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 488
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
ASH, FENTON. A Trip to Mars. Illustrated by W.H.C. Groome. 8vo, publisher's decorated red cloth, stamped in gilt, blue, black, and white, speckling to upper spine and front cover; ownership signature to endpapers, intermittent foxing, rear hinge starting; preserved in a custom cloth drop-back case. London: W. & R. Chambers, 1909

Additional Details

first edition in first state binding. Fenton Ash was a pseudonym of Francis Henry Atkins, who wrote a series of lost world novels under several pen-names. Bleiler, Checklist, p. 11.