Horace de Saint-Aubin [Honoré de Balzac]; George Edgar Slusser [trans.] — The Centenarian; or, the Two Beringhelds

New York, Arno Press, 1976. Cloth. A fine English translation of Balzac's seminal contribution to early science fiction. The first thus edition of the English translation of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Part of the Arno Press collection of supernatural and occult fiction, this work is an English translation of Honoré de Balzac's Le Centenaire, originally published in 1822 under his pseudonym Horace de Saint-Aubin. This seminal novel is crucial to the understanding of the development of early science fiction. The American scholar and well-known science fiction critic George Edgar Slusser (1939-2014) provides a foreword and a translation from the original 1822 French edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, lovely. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine .