Болезнь света

Overview:

  • Title: Болезнь света
  • Author: Жозеф Анри Рони-Старший
  • Year: 2013
  • Publisher: Тардис
  • Pages: 84
  • Binding: unknown
  • Type: Chapter Book
  • Title Reference: Болезнь света
  • Notes:
    • Data from FantLab.
    • No record of this (chap)book in WorldCat nor Russian National Library. Back cover advertises "Read in the first half of 2013 in the series", naming issues 187, 201+202, 180 and 251(?).
    • No indication of price.
    • Russian translation by A.[leksandr Borisovich, 1899–1972] Gatov of La force mystérieuse (judging by the length, the novel rather than novelet version?).
    • Title reads Bolezn' sveta, "The Disease of the World" under which the Gatov trans appeared in Smena 1927 bi-weekly (№s 19 to 24, 31 large-format pages total, subtitled "nauchno-fantasticheskiy roman"), maybe even a 1925 book. NB the text appears inside under its usual name, "Таинственная сила" / Tainstvennaya sila / "The Mysterious Force" used for a different 2003 trans.
    • Author credited as Joseph Henri [Жозеф Анри] Rosny-starshiy on cover, but just Joseph Rosny-starshiy on title page.
    • No ISBN but some national decimal classification of content.
    • Print run 1,000 copies.
    • No credit of cover artist.
    • The cover artwork reprints The Year When Stardust Fell.
    • Cover design by "Борис Покровский (Boris Pokrovskiy)" [A fictional, non-existent artist. At the Тардис publishing house, all the covers are signed with his name, which actually are created by dozens of different illustrators from all over the world. --FantLab, see link]