THE PEOPLE OF THE RUINS: A STORY OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION AND AFTER

Shanks, Edward

Published by Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, New York, 1920

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Octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-314, publisher's red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First U.S. edition. "General strike in 1924 marks the beginning of the collapse of civilization. 150 years later England is reduced to neolithical barbarism." - Gerber, Utopian Fantasy, p. 147. "The first of the many British postwar novels that foresee Britain returned to barbarism by the ravages of war." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2-107. "One of the most widely read scientific romances of the postwar years ." - Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, p. 239. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 2-88; (1987) 2-97; and (2004) II-981. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2002. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 684. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 48. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War (1992), p. 236. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 193. Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 1024. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 166. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 177. Reginald 12922. Cloth lightly worn at lower spine end and rubbed at upper spine end and corner tips, edges of text block just a bit age-darkened, glue residue on front paste-down (from bookplate removal?), a tight, clean, very good copy in the pictorial dust jacket, which is lightly chipped at spine ends and corner tips and has some internal tape along top and bottom edges. Overall, a much better than average copy of the book (which does not age gracefully) in a lovely example of the rare dust jacket. (#169926). …

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Title
THE PEOPLE OF THE RUINS: A STORY OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION AND AFTER
Author
Shanks, Edward
Publisher
Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, New York
Publication year
1920
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Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition
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Future War, Tale of the Future, Utopian Literature

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