With Gyves of Gold, A Novel
NY: G.W. Dillingham Co. Publishers, 1888. Hardcover. First Edition. Light foxing to prelims, small tear to rear hinge, extremities just lightly worn, else very good in publisher's decorated gray cloth. Early paranormal/ astral travel/ science fiction novel. "...both writers remaining untraced, though both may have been based in Missouri. A young man, experimented upon by a modestly Mad Scientist, develops the paranormal ability to travel by astral means to another planet, where he observes the operation of a Utopia in which small firms are protected by multi-national corporations (or trusts). The trip kills him." John Clute, The SF Encyclopedia. OCLC locates six copies. Item #70893
Price: $350.00