{"id":22347,"date":"2023-07-12T08:29:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T13:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=22347"},"modified":"2023-07-12T08:29:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T13:29:38","slug":"library-addition-signed-limited-hardback-of-george-lockes-voyages-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=22347","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Signed, Limited Hardback of George Locke’s Voyages in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of (I assume) it’s ongoing sale of the Gary Monson collection, Heritage Auctions offered up a lot of oversized and non-fiction works. Of those, this title was one I was most interested in, and is the reason I bid. I won the lot for $240 plus shipping. <\/p>\n

Locke, George. Voyages in Space: A Bibliography of Interplanetary Fiction 1801-1914<\/b>. Ferret Fantasy, 1975. First edition hardback, #17 of 18 signed, numbered hardback copies (plus an additional 10 copies not for sale), a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued. The definitive bibliography on early space travel fiction. Chalker\/Owings, page 527. Tymn\/Schlobin\/Currey A Research Guide to Science Fiction Studies<\/b> 47. Barron mentions this in Anatomy of Wonder 4<\/b> 7-7 (on Currey’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors<\/b>), but does not have a separate listing for it. Not in Justice. Supplements an inscribed copy of the trade paperback<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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As part of (I assume) it’s ongoing sale of the Gary Monson collection, Heritage Auctions offered up a lot of oversized and non-fiction works. Of those, this title was one I was most interested in, and is the reason I bid. I won the lot for $240 plus shipping. Locke, George. Voyages in Space: A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[1973,2354,2655,1065,1195,1064,1970,458],"class_list":["post-22347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","tag-books","tag-ferret-fantasy","tag-gary-munson","tag-george-locke","tag-heritage-auctions","tag-reference-works","tag-science-fiction","tag-science-fiction-bibliography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22347"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22363,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22347\/revisions\/22363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}