"This catalogue is published in connection with an exhibition at the Grolier Club, January 25 through March 10, 2018"--Title page verso. "Printed in the Czech Republic by PB Tisk. Seventy-five copies have been specially bound and signed by the author. Designed by Jerry Kelly and set in his Quarto typeface"--Colophon. Grolier Club copy inscribed on flyleaf and signed on title page by author. NNGr Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-270) and index.
Contents:
Gothic roots & imaginary voyages -- The end of the world & other nineteenth-century signposts -- Peak Victorian (1885) -- Dark science -- Beautiful books before the storm -- World War One & after -- H.P. Lovecraft & modern supernatural fiction -- Doc Savage & the 1930s -- Boucher & Borges -- The 1950s -- The 1960s -- Four women: Jean Rhys, Ursula K. Le Guin, Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree, Jr., & Joanna Russ -- Flying saucer rock 'n' roll & others -- Little, big -- When things changed -- Bibliography & scholarship -- Right now... -- Exhibition checklist.
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