DAWN OF FLAME And Other Stories.
Jamaica, New York: The Milwaukee Fictioneers / Ruppert Printing Services, 1936. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original black leatherette, gilt lettering on front panel, spine panel blank, all edges stained red. 313 pp, photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Introduction is by Lawrence A. Keating, President of The Milwaukee Fictioneers. 500 copies printed, of which only 250 were ever bound; 5 copies bear an Introduction by Ray Palmer, most (including this copy) bear the foreword by Keating. Conrad Ruppert, the printer, produced the book to look exactly like a bible, right down to the flexible leatherette covers, rounded corners, and red page edges. Spine panel lightly curved, endpapers lightly browned, a very good, bright copy, housed in a custom clamshell case with leather spine label titled in gilt. Item #314681
¶ The first posthumous collection of stories by Weinbaum, who died prematurely at the age of 33 a year before this volume was published. Includes seven novelettes and short stories, including "Dawn of Flame" and "Martian Odyssey". DAWN OF FLAME has long been considered to be a foundational milestone and the first book to be published by any Science Fiction & Fantasy Specialty Press.
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