A Maid from Mars, by Katherine Ross Derrick (1920s)We note that a 22-page book titled The Maid from Mars, by Anna Steese Richardson, was published in 1901. Thuvia, Maid of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, was published first in the United States as a serial in 1916 and then as a book in 1920. It was published in London as a book in 1921.
Publisher: Printed by Oscar Blackford, Truro, Cornwall
Publication Date: 1920?
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Description: Derrick, Katherine Ross. A Maid from Mars. Truro, Cornwall: Printed by Oscar Blackford. N.d. c. 1921. First edition. 12mo., 48pp., sandy colored stiff wrappers with illustrated upper cover. Undated but references to wireless, aero-plane, flying machine & the war suggests about 1920. The story of a maid from mars who comes to earth [Cornwall] in human form, learns the language in a few months, attempts to share here Martian culture & spirit & who in the ends thinks mankind unready & splits. The earliest piece written about Mars by a woman & in a context which might be called loosely "feminist". Rare.
Price: $5,000
Monday, August 25, 2008
Book Sale: Rare Copy of A Maid from Mars, by Katherine Ross Derrick (1920s)
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