RENARD MAURICE New Bodies For Old or The Strange Experiments

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RENARD, MAURICE. New Bodies For Old, or, The Strange Experiments of Dr. Lerne. 8vo, publisher's black-stamped green cloth, all edges stained green; dust jacket, folds and spine panel tanned; internally pristine. (LMS). New York: The Macauley Company, (1923)

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first american edition, and first edition in english of Renard's first novel, published in 1908 as Le Docteur Lerne, Sous-Dieu. A fine copy in unrestored, unclipped dust jacket. "Generally regarded in France as the most important native SF writer for the period 1900-1930" (Clute and Nicholls, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, p. 1003).