THE HESPERIDES: A LOOKING-GLASS FUGUE

by John Palmer, Leslie

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1936. Octavo, pp. 1-4 5-7 8 9-318 319 320: blank , original gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained black, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition, probable first issue. The protagonist is taken to Venus, where he finds a totalitarian collectivist state in which religion and free speech are ruthlessly suppressed. He becomes involved with dissenters,

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