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The Hampdenshire wonder. By: J.D. Beresford. / science fiction NOVEL /
by Beresford, J.D.
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The Hampdenshire Wonder.
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London: Eyre & Spottiswood, (1948). . Reissue; originally published in 1911. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Patterned end papers. Top edge stained red. Bookplate on front end paper; a very nice copy in a slightly worn dust jacket with a few small internal tape repairs. Introduction by Walter de la Mare. An attractive copy.
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The Hampdenshire Wonder. FIRST PENGUIN EDITION WITH WRAPPER.
by BERESFORD, J.D.
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Penguin Books. 1937. Penguin Books. London. 1937. First edition, thus. Orange triband penguin paperback with DW. Number 92. Spine lightly creased with extremities slightly worn. Pages browned otherwise a good clean copy in a slightly wrapper worn to head and tail of spine.
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The Hampdenshire Wonder.
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London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. First edition.. Dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Top edge not gilt. Small ownership signature on front end paper, a little discoloration of cloth at the fore-edges, a bright very good copy. This is the second binding, with no lettering on the front cover; the first binding had gilt lettering on the spine and front cover, and the top edge was gilt. Copies are also seen in green cloth. An early novel of a super human, a Wunderkind or Homo Superior. Bleiler: Science-Fiction: The Early Years, 182. Locke: A Spectrum of Fantasy, pg. 32 (not describing this binding).
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The Hampdenshire Wonder
by BERESFORD, J.D.
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London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition, binding variant A. Octavo. Dark green cloth, spine stamped in gilt (also seen in blue cloth) Top edge and foredge are moderately foxed, a very good or better copy in a good example of the rare printed dust jacket, the spine browned and modestly stained. *The Hampdenshire Wonder*, the author's first novel, features a child genius, and explores his treatment by those around him. The story can also be read as a partial detective novel, a genre Beresford returned to later in the *Instrument of Destiny*. *The Hampdenshire Wonder* was the first novel to deal fully with the sociological implications of a vastly superior human amongst us. In Beresford's second science fiction novel, *Goslings*, published in 1913, a plague empties London, resulting in an all-female society, considered the first time that the idea was treated seriously by an author, predating Charlotte P. Gilman's *Herland,* by a couple of years. According to…
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The Hampdenshire wonder
by Beresford, J.D. (John Davys) (1873-1947)
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London : Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Highly uncommon in such positive condition. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 295p. ; 20cm. Subjects: Science fiction, 20th century.
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