
Price: £35.00
Quantity: 1 available
Book Condition: Very Good
Contains: The Doom of London by Fred M. WHITE. 5 (of 6) science fiction stories. Illustrated. Underground History. The Revelations of an International Spy by A. V [Allen UPWARD]. First 6 stories in ongoing series. [published in book form as The Secret History of Today, 1904]. Illustrated. Short stories include: The Valley of Spiders by H. G. WELLS. Beaded blue binder's cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Clean, bright, very good. White's short stories imagine a series of future disasters, of various kinds, and their potential effects: The Four White Days sees London paralysed by snow and ice; The Four Days' Night imagines London under an overpowering smog; The Dust of Death brings a plague of diphtheria; A Bubble Burst foresees a catastrophic scare on the Stock Market, and The Invisible Force predicts the results of a huge explosion on the London Underground. A heavy item which will require additional postage outside the UK.
Title: Pearson's Magazine, Volume XV (15), January - June 1903.
Categories: Periodicals,
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: London, Arthur C. Pearson: 1903
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Type: Book
Seller ID: 95009