INTO THE UNKNOWN: THE EVOLUTION OF SCIENCE FICTION FROM FRANCIS GODWIN TO H. G. WELLS
first edition
1970 · Berkeley and Los Angeles
by Philmus, Robert M.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1970. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vii] viii-ix [x-xii] 1-174 [175-178: blank] [note: first and last two leaves are blanks], cloth. First edition. History of the themes and myths in SF up to 1900. "A valuable study of SF's origins..." - Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 9-75. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-104. A fine copy in very good dust jacket with wear at edges and 22mm closed tear and associated wrinkling at top edge of rear panel. (#64083) (Inventory #: 64083)