HILDRETH, Charles Lotin

Oo: Adventures in Orbello Land

Illustrated. New York: Belford Company, Publishers, (1889). 12mo. Burgundy pictorial cloth, stamped in black & gilt. 316 p. Bleiler Checklist p. 99 (this edition is cited). Reginald 07202A (Reginald claims that this edition is "retitled" from the W. B. Conkey edition). Bleiler, "Science-Fiction: The Early Years" p. 361 (cites this edition & the Conkey - "priority, if any, is not known"). Teitler Catalogue p. 110 (this edition cited). Bookplate of bookseller & sci-fi specialty publisher Kenneth J. Krueger on front paste-down, Books by Krueger bookseller's label on rear free endpaper. Small stain at top edge, wear at extremities, especially at base of spine; else very good. [85289]

One of several editions of this lost race novel. The copyright is held by the Belford Clarke Co. of Chicago. The Belford Company of New York split from that company in 1888. This edition is the only one bearing this precise title. The cover art is the same as that of the Belford-Clarke & Frederick Warne editions (the W. B. Conkey & American Publishers editions not examined) save that the title is integrated with the art work on the front cover as "Oo: Adventures in Orbello Land" while in the others it appears as "The Mysterious City of Oo: or Adventures in Orbello Land." LC has this edition.

Price: $175.00