POSTERITY: ITS VERDICTS AND ITS METHODS OR DEMOCRACY A.D. 2100

[Newton, Alex.]

Edité par Williams and Norgate, London, Edinburgh, Oxford, 1897

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Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-171 [172: blank], original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge untrimmed, black coated endpapers. First edition. "A 'sleeper awakes' piece; the protagonist, on waking in the year 2100, participates in a series of Bellamy-style dialogues which outline the development of the world's society. Emphasis political and sociological; little discussion of technological achievements." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 16. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 22. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 929. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 113. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 115. Bleiler (1948), p. 26. Reginald 11829. Tiny nick to cloth at bottom edge of spine panel, some faint damp staining to cloth, a bright, very good copy. (#96034).

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: POSTERITY: ITS VERDICTS AND ITS METHODS OR DEMOCRACY A.D. 2100
• Éditeur: Williams and Norgate, London, Edinburgh, Oxford
• Date de parution: 1897
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Victorian Fiction
  • Utopian Literature
  • Tale of the Future