Stockton, Frank R. The Great Stone of Sardis Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1899.
230pp + ads. Futuristic novel from 1897, predicting the mechanical inventions fifty years into the future, involving submarine travel and tunnel boring through the planet. Frank Richard Stockton (1834 - 1902) was a popular author of children's fairy tales, two of which were later to be illustrated by Maurice Sendak ("The Griffin and the Minor Canon" and "The Bee-Man of Orn"). Condition: Almost Very Good, with some shelfwear and light dust-soiling to covers.

Ref: GOTH 8174

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