Science Fiction by Gaslight: A History and Anthology of Science Fiction in Popular Magazines, 1891-1911

Overview:

  • Title: Science Fiction by Gaslight: A History and Anthology of Science Fiction in Popular Magazines, 1891-1911
  • Author: Sam Moskowitz
  • Year: 1974
  • ISBN-10: 0883551578
  • Publisher: Hyperion Press
  • Price: $4.25
  • Pages: 364
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: Science Fiction by Gaslight
  • Notes:
    • Data from Internet Archive scan
    • "Published in 1968 by The World Publishing Company"
    • "Hyperion reprint edition 1974"
    • Photographic reprint of the 1968 World Publishing edition
    • "Photography by Christine E. Haycock, M.D." on title page. "Included is a selection of science fiction art, many from the stories in this volume, others from associated sources of the same period. ... They have been photographed especially for this volume by my wife, Christine E. Haycock, M.D., who has displayed extraordinary skill in giving definition to the impressions on aged and fading paper, and retaining enough clarity to make it possible to reproduce them." from Preface (page 13, second paragraph).
    • Illustration titles and credits per blurb on following page
    • Each story is preceded, on story title page, with an introduction to author & story
    • "An Express of the Future" translator is uncredited
    • "The Immortal" poem is included in the introductory essay to "Old Doctor Rutherford"
    • LCCN per copyright page