Lands Beyond

New York/Toronto: Rinehart & Co., Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1952). First Edition. Hardcover. [a nice-looking copy, bumped at three of the four tips but no other significant wear, embossed ownership stamp of MGM writer/producer Carey Wilson on both endpapers; the jacket is a little age-toned, with minor wear at the edges and corners]. A great science-fiction writer and a great rocket scientist put their noggins together to produce "a sort of geography of those lands of the imagination which figured in the tall tales of travelers and poets. [The book] tells the stories of all these marvelous places: Atlantis, the countries of the Odyssey, the lands of Sindbad the Sailor and of Prester John, the hunt for El Dorado and the Terra Australis, and the land in the Western Ocean where the dead ships go. Nor have the lost tribes of Israel or the earthly paradise been neglected. It is a fascinating expedition into the unknown." .