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  • SIGNED [ii], 346 pp. 8vo
  • London: David Nutt, 1891
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London: David Nutt, 1891. First edition. [ii], 346 pp. 8vo. Publisher’s blue cloth, gilt, near fine. First edition. [ii], 346 pp. 8vo. Inscribed on the title-page, “To JH Rosny / from his friend George Moore.” In the list of his other works on the title page Moore has corrected “A Humorous Wife” to “A Mummer’s Wife,” and has made a correction to p. 195.
J.H. Rosny is the pseudonym of brothers Joseph and Séraphin Boex. Together they wrote novels on speculative and prehistoric subjects (such as the well-known La Guerre du feu), and they are considered among the founders of modern science fiction.

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