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.

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London: Lockwood & Co. 1864. Sm. 8vo. Publisher's orig. blindstamped pebble-grain green cloth (small mark on front cover; top and bottom edges of spine lightly worn). Gilt on spine. (204pp.). With frontisp. 1st ed. Front hinge cracked but holding otherwise a near fine copy of the scarce 1st edition. NOTE: The story of Stephen Howard and Carl Geister who find an Ore or spaceship in the Colorado Mountains. They use it to fly to the moon where they find a utopia inhabited by four foot humanoids called Notol who are reincarnations of souls from Earth. An important early science fiction work that influenced Jules Verne novels.