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Author: Birkenhead, [Frederick Edwin Smith], Earl of
Title: The World in 2030 A.D.
Place: London
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
Date: [1930]
Item # : 135052
Sale Number   268
Lot Number   12
Sale Name    
Literature with Science Fiction & Fantasy
Sale Date   07/31/2003
Sale Time   1pm PST
Low Estimate   $ 80
High Estimate   $ 120
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Description:
xi, [1], 215 pp. Illustrated with 9 plates by E. McKnight Kauffer, including frontispiece. 9¼x6½, black cloth, lettered in red. First Edition.
A utopian view of the future with robot-like illustrations. Paper label of A.D. Peters, a Literary Agent from the Strand (circa 1930), affixed on the front free endpaper.
Condition:
Spine leaning, light shelf wear, mild rubbing to cloth; else very good.
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