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Re: A Plunge into space

From: James Keeline <james~at~keeline.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 09:33:24 -0700 (PDT)
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--- Norm Wolcott <nwolcott2~at~kreative.net> wrote:
> Can anyone identify A Plunge into Space, foreword by Robert Cromie? Date,
> publisher, usual Verne title etc? A Fredonia Book.

As Andrew pointed out, only the introduction seems to be by Verne. The
text is by Robert Cromie. Here is the data from the two WorldCat listings:

Title: A plunge into space.
Author(s): Cromie, Robert, 1856-1907. 
Publication: London, New York, Frederick Warne and Co.,
Edition: 2nd ed., with a preface by Jules Verne.
Year: 1891
Description: 4 p. l., [1]-240 p. 20 cm.
Language: English
Class Descriptors: LC: PR4518.C554
Responsibility: By Robert Cromie ...
Material Type: Fiction (fic)
Document Type: Book
Entry: 19890724
Update: 20020730
Accession No: OCLC: 20061841
Database: WorldCat
Libraries: 3
                   LA LOUISIANA STATE UNIV LUU
                   MA BOSTON PUB LIBR BRL
                   VA COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY VWM


Title: A plunge into space /
Author(s): Cromie, Robert, 1856-1907. 
Publication: Westport, Conn. : Hyperion Press,
Edition: 2d ed. / with a pref. by Jules Verne.
Year: 1976, 1891
Description: 240 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Series: Classics of science fiction;
Standard No: ISBN: 0883553678 :; 0883554526 (pbk.) :; LCCN: 75-28853
SUBJECT(S)
  Genre/Form: Science fiction. 
Note(s): Reprint of the 1891 ed. published by F. Warne, London,
                   New York.
Class Descriptors: LC: PZ3.C8765; PR4518.C554; Dewey: 823/.8
Responsibility: by Robert Cromie.
Material Type: Fiction (fic)
Document Type: Book
Entry: 19760430
Update: 20030107
Accession No: OCLC: 2224747
Database: WorldCat
Libraries: 86

(I didn't list all of the libraries holding this reprint).

James
Received on Sun 21 Sep 2003 - 19:35:38 IDT

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