Description: First published in 1871 in the UK by William Blackwood and Sons, this is an early US edition of this CLASSIC EARLY SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL BY EDWARD BULWER LYTTON, AKA LORD LYTTON. This version was published by Harper & Brothers in 1875. The earliest Harper & Brothers I can identify online was published in 1873. As noted below in the Wikipedia entry on the book, there were US and Canadian versions published in 1871. Bound in original brown publisher's cloth. Single blind ruled border and monogram to front and rear panels, textured boards and spine within the border. The spine brown cloth has lighted a bit to brown/bold. Gilt title stamp along spine. Original brown endpapers. 209 clean and solidly bound pages ending with 6 pages of publisher ads. Here is an overview of the history and plot of this important early science fiction book: "Vril: The Power of the Coming Race, originally published as The Coming Race, is a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, published anonymously in 1871. Some readers have believed the account of a superior subterranean master race and the energy-form called "Vril", at least in part; some theosophists, notably Helena Blavatsky, William Scott-Elliot, and Rudolf Steiner, accepted the book as based on occult truth, in part. One 1960 book, The Morning of the Magicians by Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels, suggested that a secret Vril Society existed in Weimar Berlin. The name "Vril" may be based on the word virile,[5] as has repeatedly been suggested... ... The original (British edition) titled as The Coming Race was published anonymously in May 1871 by Blackwood and Sons of Edinburgh and London. (Blackwood published four more "editions" in 1871.) Anonymous American and Canadian editions were published in August 1871 as The Coming Race or The New Utopia, by Francis B. Felt & Co. in New York and by Copp, Clark & Co. in Toronto, respectively." B116
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Topic: Science Fiction
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Location: B116
