Published by Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd, London, 1925
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Association Member: ILAB
First Edition
Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-191 [192: blank], errata slip tipped in on dedication leaf, original blue-gray boards with linen shelf-back, spine panel lettered in black, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. "After civilization is all but wiped out by war, God appoints the beasts to teach the survivors how to live better lives, by making use of the life-enhancing technology which was discovered on the eve of the war. An ironically sentimental fable" - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-260. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1216. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1595. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 52. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 163. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Bleiler (1978), p. 146. Reginald 10544. Spine panel tanned, boards damp stained (mainly rear panel) corner tips soft, free endpapers tanned, a sound, good copy with clean text block. (#172275).