LOOKING FORWARD: THE PHENOMENAL PROGRESS OF ELECTRICITY IN 1912 .

Published by Valley View Publishing Company, Northampton, Mass., 1906

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Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-320, six inserted plates, five with illustrations by W. L. Greene, the last a photographic portrait of Edward Bellamy, original blue cloth, from and spine panels stamped in white. First edition. Novel dedicated to Bellamy, influenced by his LOOKING BACKWARD (1888). Anticipates eutopia by 1912 by cooperation and electricity. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1095. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 90. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 137. Kopp 852. Bleiler (1978), p. 100. Not in Negley (1977) or Reginald (1979; 1992). Smith, American Fiction 1901-1925 H-667. Endpapers just a bit tanned, a nearly fine copy with all the perishable white lettering intact on front and spine panels. (#157186).

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Title
LOOKING FORWARD: THE PHENOMENAL PROGRESS OF ELECTRICITY IN 1912 .
Author
Hillman, H[arry] W.
Publisher
Valley View Publishing Company, Northampton, Mass.
Publication year
1906
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition
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Edwardian Fiction, Inventions, Utopian Literature

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