About this title: Morgan Robertson (1861-1915) was a well-known American author of short stories and novels, and the possible inventor of the periscope. Nowadays he is best known for the short fictional novel The Wreck of the Titan; or, Futility, first published in 1898. This story features an enormous British passenger liner called the Titan, which, deemed to be unsinkable, carries insufficient lifeboats. On a voyage in the month of April, the Titan hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic with the loss of almost everyone on board. The similarities between the fictional sinking of the Titan and the ...
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Description: Good. Autograph edition with an inscription. No folded pages or writing. Some cover wear, including rubbing, edgewear, corner bumps, and a little fraying around spine. Red cloth cover. Front hinge cracked. Binding intact. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McClure's Magazine and Metropolitan Magazine
Description: Hardback. Circa 1914. No dustjacket, uniform autograph edition bound in red cloth. Small owners name and address on the front endpaper and a small blacked out area on the copyright page done by the publisher, otherwise a nice tight sound unmarked copy in Very Good condition. read more
Edition: "Autograph Edition"
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McClure's Magazine and Metropolitan Magazine
Date Published: 1899
Description: Hardback w/tight binding. Slight fading to spine/light marks to covers. Pages clean; foxing only on top edge; author's signature clear and clean; black marking pen covers pub date as listed; NOT EXLIBRARY! Hardback book w/o dust jacket. 11 Unnumbered Short Stories, 248 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR w/ inscription. Author's inscription: "With thanks and acknowledgements I am sincerely yours Morgan Robertson". Dedication: "To its Godfather John S. Phillips this book is gratefully dedicated". Contents: ... read more
Description: McClure's Mag. And Metropolitan Magazine, c1899, Autograph; Edition, brown cloth hardcover, AUTOGRAPHED BOOKPLATE on second front page, covers soiled and lightly dampstained, light wear and light fade to spine cloth, else contents tight, a fair copy. Still a nice copy you will be happy to own! read more
Edition: Autograph Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McClure's Magazine and Metropolitan Magazine
Date Published: 1914
Description: Inscribed by the author Inscribed, signed label pasted in frontendpaper. 248 pages 11 stories; 12mo, red leather. Top of the spine/corner tips worn, a few scuffs in leather cover, slightly canted, small hole inner hinge; good; contents very good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McClure's Magazine, New York
Date Published: 1899
Description: Signed Robertson (1861-1915) was a New York merchant seaman and author of adventurous sea stories. About Very Good in red cloth, modestly soiled, some spotting, gilt spine title. Autograph edition. Lengthy inscription label (probably pre-printed) but signed by Robertson in a different ink affixed to front blank.248pp. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: [New York] McClure's Magazine and Metropolitan Magazine [ca. 1910].
Date Published: 1910
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Signed by Author(s) First edition thus ("Autograph Edition"). 8vo. Original light red cloth stamped in gilt on the spine and blind on the front cover. Very good. 248 pages. No dust jacket. No other signatures or bookplates. Signed by Robertson on printed label laid-down on the first preliminary page. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dodo Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781409901198ISBN:140990119X
Description: New. BRAND NEW and ready for dispatch. Delivery normally within 4/7 days. Our reputation is built on our Speedy Delivery Service and our Customer Service Team. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: [NY]: Autograph Edition Published by McClure's Magazine and Metropolitan...
Date Published: [1914]
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-248, professionally rebound in blue cloth, spine stamped in gold. Later edition. A collection first published in 1899 by The Century Co., reprinted as part of a uniform edition of Robertson's works called the "Autograph Edition, " with Robertson's signature affixed to the recto of the leaf preceding the title leaf. Collects eleven stories including "The Battle of the Monsters, " "Primordial" (according to Bleiler, "probably a source for Tarzan"), and other science ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: [NY]: Autograph Edition Published by McClure's Magazine and Metropolitan...
Date Published: [1914]
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-248, original red cloth, front cover stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. Later edition. A collection first published in 1899 by The Century Co., reprinted as part of a uniform edition of Robertson's works called the "Autograph Edition, " with Robertson's signature affixed to the recto of the leaf preceding the title leaf. Collects eleven stories including "The Battle of the Monsters, " "Primordial" (according to Bleiler, "probably a source for Tarzan"), and ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McClure's Magazine
Date Published: 1899
Description: VG. No Dust Jacket 248pgs Covers, page ends dull, tapemended 1" tear on page 9 margin, ink owner name on front endpaper, 1/4" spots (2) on several. Pages, o.w. a clean copy. Special SIGNED by Author Edition. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Wildside Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781434470935ISBN:1434470938
Description: New. BRAND NEW and ready for dispatch. Delivery normally within 4/7 days. Our reputation is built on our Speedy Delivery Service and our Customer Service Team. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McClure's Magazine, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1899
Description: Good. No Jacket. Signed by Author 1899 McClure's magazine First edition of The Autographed ed. with a **SIGNED & INSCRIBED** bookplate pasted on the 2nd ffep. A solid copy in G+ condition/ no DJ. The red boards have fading on the spine end and some stains wrapping around to the front and rear. Still a unique signed copy! read more
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