Hilary and Dik Evans Evans

Beyond the Gaslight: Science in Popular Fiction, 1985-1905

New York: Vanguard Press, 1977. First American edition. Hardcover. Oversized hardcover in black cloth. First American edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. 160 pp. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of period illustrations. A survey of how the world of science, past, present , and future, appeared in popular fiction in the decade surrounding the turn of the 20th century. This was the heyday of Wells, Verne, Conan Doyle and namy other imaginative writings who gave their stories scientific twists. Fine / near fine. Item #E23262
ISBN: 0814907822

Price: $14.95