THE MASTER OF SILENCE: A ROMANCE
by Bacheller, Irving
Price: $150.00
- Bookseller: L. W. Currey, Inc.
- Seller Inventory #: 130687
- Format: Original decorated gray green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in dark green, black, and gold, all edges trimmed.
- Book condition: Hint of rubbing to cloth at spine ends and corner tips, a bright, nearly fine copy. (#130687)
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: New York: Charles L. Webster & Co.,
- Date published: 1892
Book Description
New York: Charles L. Webster & Co.,. 1892. original decorated gray green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in dark green, black, and gold, all edges trimmed.. Hint of rubbing to cloth at spine ends and corner tips, a bright,. nearly fine copy. (#130687). First edition. The author's first book. According to Bacheller, 600 copies of the book had been sold prior to the failure of the publisher. A curious novel combining elements of Gothic horror, extrasensory perception and mystery. A central character is a mind reader who possesses superhuman strength acquired with training by his father. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 75. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 034. Bleiler (1978), p. 13. Reginald 00694. Wright (III) 197.
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