REPRIEVE FROM PARADISE

by H. Chandler Elliott

$25 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: Gnome Press Inc., 1955 . Octavo, cloth. First edition. A post-atomic war dystopia in which the now static authoritarian Hierarchy ruling the Earth has encouraged human reproduction, resulting in overpopulation and the extinction of most insects and animals. Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 192. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature,

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