chalmers kearney (3 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. Chalmers, Daisy (illustrator). 130pp. Illustrated light card, spiral bound. 8vo. Page numbers for start of chapters in black Biro on contents page otherwise neat, clean, bright and tight throughout.

Zustand: Good. 1950. 5th Edition. 253 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A signed, first edition of this vanishingly scarce utopian science-fiction novel by Australian author and inventor, Chalmers Kearney. First edition, signed by the author to the title page.Very scarce work. Bound in the publisher's original cloth, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Written by Australian inventor, engineer and author, Elfric Wells Chalmers Kearney, whose work was largely focused on railway engineering, being the managing director of the Kearney Railway Construction Company. Kearney actively promoted monorail technology, giving lectures and writing a book on the subject. 'Erone' was his only novel, with its aim being to popularise the notion of monorail transport. This novel presents a love story surrounded by wonderous cities of the future, being a paradise for engineers and architects, while showing the population an image of a tremendous and inspiring times to come.Illustrated with a bright frontispiece, in colour. Collated, complete. Bound in the publisher's original cloth, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, lovely, with light shelf wear only. Light handling marks to endpapers. Dust wrapper is sound, with chipping and the odd closed tear to the extremities, with slight loss to the head and tail of the spine. Tear to rear flyleaf. Light handling marks to the rear wrap, with spotting to the reverse. Internally, firmly bound with bright, clean pages. Signed by the author to the title page. Near Fine. signed by author. book.