Zero to eighty : being my lifetime doings, reflections, and inventions, also my journey around the moon / Akkad Pseudoman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Northrup, Edwin F. (Edwin Fitch), 1866-1940.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Northrup, Edwin F. (Edwin Fitch), 1866- (autograph) (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 280. pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Scientific Publishing Company, 1937.

Notes:

On dustjacket: Zero to eighty / by E.F. Northrup (writing under the name Dr. Pseudoman).

"The autobiography of a wholly fictitious individual who is born in the year 1920, and who reviews in his eightieth year his life's career and accomplishments. The major achievement of the principal character of the story, Akkad Pseudoman (pretended man), is the realization of a youthful dream that it is possible to create a means for escaping the earth's gravity, circling the moon, and returning alive with records to the earth."--Pref.

Preface signed: E.F. Northrup.

"First edition."

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has loose front and back boards.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has inscription "Compliments of the author. E. F. Northrup. May, 1937." on front flyleaf.

OCLC:

543482