(ASSOCIATION COPY) Intrigue on the Upper Level : A Story of Crime, Love, Adventure and Revolt in 2050 A.D.

SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page -"To Henry W. Marshall, Sr. from Thomas Temple Hoyne April 20, 1934", with typed slip above signature tipped in -"Publication Date April 20". Hoyne's science fiction novel "in which a primitive, hierarchical, gangster-run capitalist society is riven by discontent among the lower orders, and is eventually overthrown."(SFE THe Encyclopedia of Science Fiction). ASSOCIATION COPY, Henry W. Marshall, Sr.is known for being the founder of the Lafayette (Indiana) Journal & Courier, Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives, and acting president of Purdue University. Lacking the dust jacket, Near Fine, light wear at spine ends. No other SIGNED copies of Hoyne's books found in commerce as of 01/2024. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-26; (1981) 2-42; and (1987) 2-45. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 118. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.