DIE INSEL MELLONTA

by Lazar Freiherr von Paczolay Hellenbach

$850 · Offered by L. W. Currey

Leipzig: Verlag von Oswald Mutze, 1887. Octavo, pp. i-v vi 1 2-248, original three-quarter green cloth and marbled boards, spine panel stamped in gold and blind, all edges marbled, yellow endpapers. Second, enlarged edition. A variant issue with tipped in title leaf with imprint of Verlag von Oswald Mutze, rather than Wilhelm Braumüller. A young man is shipwrecked on Mellonta, an island utopia in the South Pacific

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