8vo. 8 inserted plates by A. d'Aguilcourt. (Light spotting to title-page and occasional text.) Original pictorial blue cloth stamped in red and silver, all edges silver (some spotting to covers, small stain on lower cover, light rubbing to fore-corners and edges). Provenance: Convent of Notre Dame, Ashdown Park (embossed stamp and notation on recto of frontispiece); Fifth Form Library (presentation inscription on front free endpaper).

FIRST EDITION. "An imaginative science-fantasy romance, with monsters and flying machines galore, of the life and civilization inside the Moon; the manuscript was sent by means of an antigravity missile to Earth for our edification" (Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p.48). Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 386; Locke, Voyages in Space 46; Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p.59.