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Author Title Publisher Year Published Notes
Flammarion, N.Camille. La Planete Mars et ses Conditions d'Habitabilitie'. Gauthier-Villars et Fils 1892-1909 1st ed. 2 vols. 608 and 598 p., respectively. Standard work covering the history of Mars thought and exploration up to 1909. A draft English translation apparently exists in one copy only, at the Lowell Observatory Library in Arizona.
Hancock, Graham. The Mars Mystery: the Secret Connection Between Earth and the Red Planet. New York: Crown 1998 1st edition. 344 p. Another work building on Hoagland's theories.
Hoagland, Richard. The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books 1987 1st edition. Account of the face and the Cydonia region.
Hoagland, Richard. The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books 1992 2nd edition, paperback only. New material, observations, and theories added. Account of the face and the Cydonia region. Later edition in 1996 continues to refute NASA finding about the face, addressing new data.
Lowell, Percival. Mars. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin 1895 1st ed. THE classic non-fiction work on the planet Mars by the most popularly influential and colorful of Mars observers. Covers Lowell’s astronomical and suppositional observations about the planet. 228 p.
Lowell, Percival. Mars. London: Longman, Green and Co. 1896 1st British edition. THE classic non-fiction work on the planet Mars by the most popularly influential and colorful of Mars observers. Covers Lowell’s astronomical and suppositional observations about the planet. 228 p.
Lowell, Percival. Mars. History of Astronomy Reprints 1978 Later limited edition of the 1895 work. THE classic non-fiction work on the planet Mars by the most popularly influential and colorful of Mars observers. Covers Lowell’s astronomical and suppositional observations about the planet.
Lowell, Percival. Mars. Elibron Classics 2001 Later UK reprint edition of the 1895 work. Paperback. THE classic non-fiction work on the planet Mars by the most popularly influential and colorful of Mars observers. Covers Lowell’s astronomical and suppositional observations about the planet.
Lowell, Percival. Mars. Waterbury, CT: Brohan 2002 Later reprint edition of the 1895 work. Paperback. THE classic non-fiction work on the planet Mars by the most popularly influential and colorful of Mars observers. Covers Lowell’s astronomical and suppositional observations about the planet.
Lowell, Percival. Mars and Its Canals. New York: Macmillan 1906 1st edition. 393 p. 2nd of the three major books by Lowell about Mars. There was a second printing in August 1907, and it was still being printed as of 1911.
Lowell, Percival. Mars and Its Canals. Waterbury, CT: Brohan 2003 Reprint edition of the work, a facsimile of the thisd edition of 1911. Paperback. 2nd of the three major books by Lowell about Mars.
Lowell, Percival. Mars as the Abode of Life. New York: Macmillan 1908 1st edition. 288 p. 8 lectures published together, this work puts forth the full unfettered view of Lowell’s populated Mars. 3rd of his mars titles, and arguably the most controversial. A second printing was done in 1909, and a third in 1910.
Lowell, Percival. Mars as the Abode of Life. Waterbury, CT: Brohan 2000 Rrprint edition. 288 p. Paperback. 8 lectures published together, this work puts forth the full unfettered view of Lowell’s populated Mars. 3rd of his mars titles, and arguably the most controversial.
Nelson, the Earl (Albert Francis Joseph Horatio). There IS Life on Mars . London 1955 1st UK edition. A well meaning, yet seriously flawed book looking at the possibility of plant and intelligent life on Mars. perhaps too heavily influenced by Lowell. Lovely dust jacket however.
Nelson, the Earl (Albert Francis Joseph Horatio). There IS Life on Mars . New York: Citadel Press 1956 1st US edition. 152 p. A well meaning, yet seriously flawed book looking at the possibility of plant and intelligent life on Mars. perhaps too heavily influenced by Lowell. Lovely dust jacket however.
Pozos, Randolfo Rafael The Face on Mars: Evidence for a Lost Civilization? Chicago: Chicago Review Press 1986 1st edition. softcover only. 135 p. Follows and adds little to Hoaglund.
Wallace, Sir Alfred Russel. Is Mars Inhabited? New York: Macmillan 1907 1st ed. A short critical review of Mars and Its Canals by Percival Lowell in book form. Wallace suggests that Mars is very much as we know it is today, and seeks to ground many of Lowell’s lofty claims.

 

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