A TRAVELER FROM ALTRURIA: ROMANCE

by Howells

$150 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1894. Octavo, pp. 1-2 1 2-318, original red cloth, stamped in gold. First edition. One of the few American utopian works similar to William Morris's NEWS FROM NOWHERE. A visitor from an ideal country, shocked by the social and economic inequality in America, describes his unhurried land where the ballot box toppled the Age of Accumulation and replaced it with a form of

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