LOOKING WITHIN: THE MISLEADING TENDENCIES OF LOOKING BACKWARD MADE MANIFEST

by J. W. Roberts

$250 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1893. Octavo, pp. i-ii iii iv 1-279 280-284: blank note: last two leaves are blanks , flyleaves at front and rear, original decorated sea green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown and gold. First edition. A bitter, contradictory, anti-utopian novel utilizes a sleeper who awakes in 1927 K vs. L war , 2000 Bellamy's utopia encourages sin and laziness, human nature

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