Item #158462 INTO OTHER WORLDS. Roger Lancelyn Green.

INTO OTHER WORLDS.

Space-Flight in Fiction, from Lucian to Lewis. Pp. 190, half-title page vignette, appendix; demy 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split; edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Abelard, London, 1958. First edition. *'The idea of journeying to the Moon, to the planets - even to the stars... Into Other Worlds follows this fascinating by-path of literature - the dream rather than the scientific study - from the time of the ancient Greeks, down to the present century' [wrapper blurb]. Item #158462

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