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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 worn at lower spine end, a bright, clean, very good copy in the pictorial dust jacket (that does not have a printed price), with wear at corner tips, short tear at bottom edge of front panel, small chip from lower spine end with loss of several letters of publisher's imprint, and a few internal tape mends at top and bottom edges. Overall, a nice copy of the book (which does not age gracefully) in a lovely example of the rare dust jacket. (#172269).
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