Description: The Spreading Stain A TALE FOR BOYS AND MEN WITH BOYS HEARTS By Charles J. Finger Frontislpiece by Paul Honore 1927 First Edition Doubleday, Page & Co. New York Hardcover, 245 pages Charles Finger (1867-1941) UK-born author, in US from 1896, author of markedly staid and manly books for boys, with the exception of The Spreading Stain: A Tale for Boys and Men With Boys' Hearts (1927) , an sf Disaster tale in which floods, fire and managerial incompetence conspire to help give birth to a universal plague instigated by a pesticide gone wrong (see Ecology) ; the protagonist (who narrates the tale) escapes to the mysterious headquarters of the Transstate Airline Company, which, after some years have passed, establishes over the Ruined Earth a Pax Aeronautica centered in Labrador, trying from there "to make the earth clean again". Had the final chapter of the book not revealed that the story of the spreading pesticidal Stain, and all that follows, was a hoax inserted by a secret second narrator, Finger's sf novel might have gained some just renown. With the removal of that last chapter, it retains some of the interest it might have compelled. A rare, weird book, seldom seen for under $100.00 with the dust jacket. Obviously this copy lacks the dj, but is in really nice condition with just a little cover wear and a dated inscription in pen to the original owner. 5 1/2" x 8" x 1 1/2"
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Year Printed: 1927
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Literature
Binding: Hardcover
Region: North America
Illustrator: Paul Honore
Author: Charles J. Finger
Subject: Children's
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co.
Place of Publication: New York
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
