TAINE, John (pseudonym for Eric Temple BELL). Green Fire [Inscribed to wife]. New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., (1928).

First Edition. Rare Bleiler listed fantasy novel, "weird and fantastic, of two rival scientists, who struggled to release and gain control of the terrible energy concealed in the atom - one for good, the other for evil... Look! the Milky Way is a blaze with a sinister green fire. Strange dangers threaten the Earth... Someone had been tampering with the atoms". This copy inscribed by the author to his wife in year of publication: "Toby Bell, / from the Author. / 27 March 1928". "Toby" was the author's nick name for his wife, Jessie Bell. Very Good or Near Fine with some wear at spine ends, in Good or better, edge chipped dustjacket, about an inch of loss at lower rear spine edge, nickel sized abrasion at spine.

Price: $650.00