THE CRYSTAL BUTTON OR, ADVENTURES OF PAUL PROGNOSIS IN THE FORTY-NINTH CENTURY

by Chauncey Thomas

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

Boston: Gregg Press, 1975. Octavo, cloth. Later edition. Text offset from that of the 1891 Houghton, Mifflin and Company edition. New introduction by Ormond Seavey. This utopian novel, set in Boston in the far future, was written in the 1870s and rejected for publication by George Houghton in 1880; it was published in 1891 following the success of Bellamy's LOOKING BACKWARD 1888 which established a strong niche market for

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